With the Color tools you can manipulate image colors in several ways:
Modify the color balance: Section 5.2, “Color Balance”
Adjust hue, saturation and lightness levels: Section 5.3, “Hue-Saturation”
Render into a greyscale image seen through a colored glass: Section 5.4, “Colorize”
Adjust brightness and contrast levels: Section 5.5, “Brightness-Contrast”
Transform into a black and white image depending on pixel value: Section 5.6, “Threshold”
Change the intensity range in a channel: Section 5.7, “Levels”
Change color, brightness, contrast or transparency in a sophisticated way: Section 5.8, “Curves”
Reduce the number of colors: Section 5.9, “Posterize”
Convert all colors to corresponding shades of gray: Section 5.10, “Desaturate”