GIF Color Adjuster

Change the colors of an animated GIF - brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and white balance, or one-click filters like Vintage, B&W and Neon. Watch the GIF play with your changes before you download. Want it sharper rather than more colourful? Try the GIF Enhancer.

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How to Change GIF Colors

  1. Add your GIF. Drop an animated GIF, browse for it or paste it with Ctrl+V. No GIF handy? Try the sample.
  2. Pick a look. Start with a filter such as Vintage, B&W or Neon, or go straight to brightness, contrast, saturation and hue.
  3. Fine-tune with the live preview. Drag the before/after divider, adjust white balance, tone and effects, or swap one colour for another.
  4. Apply and download. Press Apply to GIF, check the real file size and download - or send the GIF straight to another tool.

Found the GIF on Tenor? Grab it with the Tenor GIF Downloader and send it straight here.

Every Color Control in One Place

Start simple, go as deep as you like.

Basics

Brightness, contrast, saturation and hue cover most fixes - a dark GIF, a washed-out GIF or a GIF in the wrong colour.

Grading

White balance, exposure, gamma, shadows, highlights, vibrance and split toning give a GIF a real cinematic mood.

Effects

Black & white, sepia, negative, posterize and sharpen - plus color replace to swap one colour for another.

Filters and What They Do

Each filter is just a set of slider values, so you can always see - and change - what it did.

FilterBest forWhat it changes
VividDull screen recordingsMore contrast, saturation and vibrance
Warm / CoolWrong white balanceTemperature and tint
B&WMemes, dramatic momentsRemoves colour, adds contrast
Vintage / SepiaRetro and nostalgic GIFsFaded shadows, warm tint, sepia
Teal & orangeMovie clipsTeal shadows, orange highlights
NeonGaming and party GIFsStrong saturation and contrast

What Stays the Same

Only the colours change.

Every frame keeps its delay, the loop count stays as it was, and transparent areas stay transparent. The size in pixels never changes - for that, use the GIF Resizer.

Want to change the speed too? The GIF Speed Changer handles timing, and GIF Reverse plays it backwards.

Tips and Related GIF Tools

  • Blurry or grainy? Clean it up with the GIF Enhancer first, then grade the colours here.
  • Matching several clips? Give them the same filter, then put them together with the GIF Collage Maker or the GIF Merger.
  • Need a caption? Add Text to GIF works great on a B&W or high-contrast GIF.
  • Remove the background? The GIF Background Remover makes it transparent.
  • Sharing on social media? GIF to MP4 keeps colours smoother than GIF's 256 colours.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop your GIF, then pick a filter or move the sliders - brightness, contrast, saturation and hue are right at the top. The preview plays the GIF with your changes, side by side with the original.

Press Apply to GIF and download the result. Every frame gets the same look.

Yes. Open Color replace, click the eyedropper and then the colour in the preview, and choose the new colour. The tolerance slider decides how close a shade must be to change.

For still images, the Image Color Replacer works the same way.

Yes. Every frame keeps its own delay, the loop count stays as it was, and transparent pixels stay transparent. Only the colours change.

Vivid, Warm, Cool, B&W, Vintage, Faded, High contrast, Neon, Teal & orange, Golden hour, Cold night, Sepia and Negative. Every filter is a starting point - tweak the sliders afterwards and save the result as your own preset.

Yes. Under Frames, pick a range, for example frames 10 to 25. The rest of the GIF stays exactly as it was - handy for a flash, a colour pop or a mood change halfway through.

A GIF can hold at most 256 colours per frame. Brighter, more saturated or tinted frames often use more of them, so the file can grow.

Set 128 or 64 colours under Output, choose the shared palette, or slim it down afterwards with Compress GIF.

This tool changes the colours and the mood. The GIF Enhancer fixes quality - it sharpens blurry GIFs, removes noise and cleans up compression artefacts. Many people enhance first, then colour-grade here.

Normally not. Your GIF is coloured in your browser and never leaves your device. Only very large GIFs are finished on our server, and those files are deleted automatically after 4 hours.

Guides & Tutorials

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