# I want to desaturate my movie
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 13, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408 "2006-04-13T04:27:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sunarc\_sandeep](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sunarc_sandeep)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408/1 "2006-04-13T04:27:10Z")
Hello all,
I want to change the color to grayscale (desaturate) my movie clip.
Please suggest me how can i do it.
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### Author:  [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408/2 "2006-04-13T04:30:37Z")
if you have flash 8 just use the color filter. just turn everything to 0
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### Author:  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408/3 "2006-04-13T05:18:07Z")
> [@Defective](#):
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> if you have flash 8 just use the color filter. just turn everything to 0
It’s a little more complicated than that and seeing as how he doesn’t have Flash 8 you won’t be able to do it this way.
Anyways you have to desaturate the images in another program if you are using Flash 7.
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### Author:  [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-want-to-desaturate-my-movie/185408/4 "2006-04-13T08:40:05Z")
in photoshop, just open the image and press ctrl-shift-U