Sometimes color isn't an option but the best piece of clip art is in color. Converting color clip art to a grayscale bitmap renders the colors in shades of gray and increases the usefulness of any clip art collection.
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Additionally, for some colorizing (or recoloring) tasks such as creating sepia-look prints or duotones, it is necessary to first convert the image to grayscale.
Converting color clip art to grayscale is usually a simple option in image editing software.


