# Manipulate saturation / make movieclip grayscale

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulate-saturation-make-movieclip-grayscale/294855
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**Created:** [August 20, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulate-saturation-make-movieclip-grayscale/294855 "2009-08-20T22:31:31Z")
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### Author: ![ThreeDollarBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ea924/32.png) [@ThreeDollarBill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ThreeDollarBill)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulate-saturation-make-movieclip-grayscale/294855/1 "2009-08-20T22:31:31Z")

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in the filters panel, there is an “adjust color” option… and inside of it, there is an option there for “saturation”… setting it to the lowest (-100) will turn the movieclip / whatever object you’re applying the filter to, to grayscale…

i was wondering, how would i go about this using code?

for example, if there was a movieclip on stage called “thePic” and i wanted to decrease its saturation slowly every enterframe until it finally becomes grayscale, how would i go about it?

i know how to manipulate the other filters like GlowFilter and BlurFilter through code, but it seems like there is no “AdjustColorFilter”… there is a ColorMatrixFilter, but i dont event understand how it works… please help…