Transform to Grayscale Image

Use this tool to transform a color image into a grayscale image. This transformation is necessary, if you want to process the color image in other tools since most of the tools only process grayscale images.

Parameters

Basic Parameters

Color Image:

This parameter represents the color image to be transformed.

Additional Parameters

Alignment Data:

This parameter represents the alignment data that are used to align the image. By default the alignment data are defined in a way that no effect is visible. If you want to use specific alignment data, you have to connect the parameter to an appropriate result of a previous tool such as Determine Alignment with Matching, Determine Alignment with Straight Border, Align Image, or Rotate Image.

Results

Basic Results

Grayscale Image:

This result returns the transformed grayscale image.

Tool State:

"Tool State" returns information about the state of the tool and thus can be used for error handling. Please see the topic Tool State Result for more information about the different tool state results.

Additional Results

Processing Time:

This result returns the duration of the most recent execution of the tool in milliseconds. The result is provided as additional result. Therefore, it is hidden by default but it can be displayed via the button beside the tool results. For more information see the section Processing Time in the tool reference overview.