# Photo Filters — Apply photo filters on Mac

Give photos a look — warm, cool, vivid, moody, vintage, black & white — with fade, grain and vignette. Part of OneMacTools, 151 private tools in one native Mac app (macOS 26 or later); category: Images. Runs on your Mac; nothing is uploaded.

Pick a look and its strength, then add film fade to lift the blacks, film grain and a vignette. All of them work on their own too, and on a whole batch, so a set of photos gets a consistent style.

Page: https://www.onemactools.com/tools/photo-filters · Download: https://www.onemactools.com/download · Pricing: https://www.onemactools.com/pricing

## How to use it
1. **Drop your photos.** Add one photo or a whole set. The same settings are applied to every one, so a set ends up with one consistent style.
2. **Pick a look.** Warm, Cool, Vivid, Moody, Vintage, Black & white, Noir, Film fade, Instant or Chrome, or None to use only the finishing touches.
3. **Set the strength.** Lower Strength to blend the look with the original photo for a subtler result.
4. **Add fade, grain or vignette.** These work with any look, or on their own with None.
5. **Click Apply.** Filtered copies are saved in a dated folder in Downloads › OneMacTools. Use the Preview (eye) button to compare, or Show in Finder.

## Options
- **Look:** The overall style: Warm, Cool, Vivid, Moody, Vintage, Black & white, Noir, Film fade, Instant, Chrome or None. Choose None when you only want fade, grain or a vignette.
- **Strength:** Only shown when a look is chosen (not None). How much of the look is mixed in, from 0 to 100%; the default is 100%. Around 50–70% often looks more natural on portraits.
- **Fade:** Lifts the blacks and softens contrast like faded film, from 0 to 100%. Off by default.
- **Grain:** Adds fine film grain, from 0 to 100%. Off by default. The grain is random, so two runs won't be pixel-for-pixel identical.
- **Vignette:** Darkens the edges to draw the eye to the centre, from 0 to 100%. Off by default.

## Tips
- Edit a whole set at once. Running every photo from one shoot through the same look and strength gives a gallery or feed a consistent feel.
- For black-and-white prints, compare Black & white with Noir: Noir has deeper contrast, Black & white is gentler.
- Keep the finishing touches light. A little fade (10–25%) and vignette (20–30%) usually reads as film; high values quickly look heavy.
- Grain hides noise in low-light phone photos, so a touch of it can make a dark photo look intentional rather than grainy by accident.
- Filter before you compress. Apply the look to the full-size photo first, then shrink it for the web with Compress Images.

## Questions
**How do I make a photo black and white on a Mac?**
Drop it onto Photo Filters, choose Black & white or Noir as the Look and click Apply. Noir gives a darker, high-contrast result.

**Can I apply the same filter to many photos at once?**
Yes. Drop them all in together; every photo gets the same look, strength, fade, grain and vignette.

**How do I make a filter less strong?**
Lower the Strength slider. At 50% the result is halfway between your original photo and the full look.

**How do I give a photo a vintage film look?**
Choose Vintage or Film fade, then add some Fade to lift the blacks and a little Grain. A light Vignette finishes it off.

**Can I add only a vignette or grain without changing the colours?**
Yes. Set Look to None, then use the Fade, Grain and Vignette sliders on their own.

**Will the filter reduce the photo's quality?**
The photo keeps its full pixel size. JPEG and HEIC copies are saved at high quality, and PNG and TIFF copies are lossless.