QML change image color

You can replace your image color using ShaderEffect.

ShaderEffect {
    property variant src: yourImage

    property real r: yourColor.r * yourColor.a
    property real g: yourColor.g * yourColor.a
    property real b: yourColor.b * yourColor.a

    width: yourImage.width
    height: yourImage.height

    vertexShader: "
        uniform highp mat4 qt_Matrix;
        attribute highp vec4 qt_Vertex;
        attribute highp vec2 qt_MultiTexCoord0;
        varying highp vec2 coord;

        void main() {
            coord = qt_MultiTexCoord0;
            gl_Position = qt_Matrix * qt_Vertex;
        }
    "

    fragmentShader: "
        varying highp vec2 coord;
        uniform sampler2D src;

        uniform lowp float r;
        uniform lowp float g;
        uniform lowp float b;

        void main() {
            lowp vec4 clr = texture2D(src, coord);
            lowp float avg = (clr.r + clr.g + clr.b) / 3.;
            gl_FragColor = vec4(r * avg, g * avg, b * avg, clr.a);
        }
    "
}

The above code turns your image into the grayscaled one and then applies your color.


In Qt 5 (from 5.2) you may use ColorOverlay as follows:

import QtQuick 2.0
import QtGraphicalEffects 1.0

Item {
    width: 300
    height: 300

    Image {
        id: bug
        source: "images/butterfly.png"
        sourceSize: Qt.size(parent.width, parent.height)
        smooth: true
        visible: false
    }

    ColorOverlay {
        anchors.fill: bug
        source: bug
        color: "#ff0000"  // make image like it lays under red glass 
    }
 }

In Qt 6 module QtGraphicalEffects (which includes ColorOverlay) was removed because of licensing issues.

In Qt 6.1 GraphicalEffects is now available again, as @SCP3008 commented below


You can also use Colorize

And the difference with ColorOverlay is: Colorize can really change the color of a image with HSL, it is more suitable for me. ColorOverlay is similar to what happens when a colorized glass is put on top of a grayscale image with RGBA.

import QtQuick 2.12
import QtGraphicalEffects 1.12

Item {
    width: 300
    height: 300

    Image {
        id: bug
        source: "images/bug.jpg"
        sourceSize: Qt.size(parent.width, parent.height)
        smooth: true
        visible: false
    }

    Colorize {
        anchors.fill: bug
        source: bug
        hue: 0.0
        saturation: 0.5
        lightness: -0.2
    }
}