Color to Grayscale on Hover Image via HTML Canvas Cloning

Original source with some code modifications [a) tutorial is grayscale to color on hover, b) IE compatability]

*change slidebox to whatever your container div for the image is
*can be used in conjunction with other animations. Here we grayscale an image in conjunction with hover overlay to create minimal distraction for the overlay color on hover.

<script type="text/javascript">

	// On window load. This waits until images have loaded which is essential
	$(window).load(function(){

		// Fade in images so there isn't a color "pop" document load and then on window load
		$(".slidebox img").fadeIn(500);

		// clone image
		$('.slidebox img').each(function(){
			var el = $(this);
			el.css({"position":"absolute"}).wrap("<div class='img_wrapper' style='display: inline-block'>").clone().addClass('img_grayscale').css({"position":"absolute","z-index":"2","opacity":"1"}).insertBefore(el).queue(function(){
				var el = $(this);
				el.parent().css({"width":this.width,"height":this.height});
				el.dequeue();
			});
			// Brother version
			var ua = $.browser;

			// IE < 9 Brother
			if ( ua.msie && ua.version.slice(0,3) < 9 ) {
			el.css('filter',"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(grayScale=1)");

			}

			// Canvas Brother
			else {

			this.src = grayscale(this.src);

			}
		});

		// Fade image
		$('.slidebox img').mouseout(function(){
			$(this).parent().find('img:first').stop().animate({opacity:1}, 200);
		})
		$('.img_grayscale').mouseover(function(){
			$(this).stop().animate({opacity:0}, 200);
		});
	});

	// Grayscale w canvas method
	function grayscale(src){
		var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
		var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
		var imgObj = new Image();
		imgObj.src = src;
		canvas.width = imgObj.width;
		canvas.height = imgObj.height;
		ctx.drawImage(imgObj, 0, 0);
		var imgPixels = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
		for(var y = 0; y < imgPixels.height; y++){
			for(var x = 0; x < imgPixels.width; x++){
				var i = (y * 4) * imgPixels.width + x * 4;
				var avg = (imgPixels.data[i] + imgPixels.data[i + 1] + imgPixels.data[i + 2]) / 3;
				imgPixels.data[i] = avg;
				imgPixels.data[i + 1] = avg;
				imgPixels.data[i + 2] = avg;
			}
		}
		ctx.putImageData(imgPixels, 0, 0, 0, 0, imgPixels.width, imgPixels.height);
		return canvas.toDataURL();
    }

</script>