diff --git a/src/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifier.php b/src/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifier.php
index 77112949c..dabcc8be2 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifier.php
+++ b/src/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifier.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 namespace Intervention\Image\Drivers\Imagick\Modifiers;
 
+use Imagick;
 use ImagickException;
 use Intervention\Image\Exceptions\ModifierException;
 use Intervention\Image\Interfaces\ImageInterface;
@@ -19,15 +20,30 @@ public function apply(ImageInterface $image): ImageInterface
     {
         foreach ($image as $frame) {
             try {
-                $result = $frame->native()->modulateImage(100, 0, 100);
+                // read the colorspace of the frame to be able to restore it,
+                // getImageColorspace() only reports the frame the iterator is
+                // currently pointing at
+                $colorspace = $frame->native()->getImageColorspace();
+
+                // turn image to grayscale
+                $result = $frame->native()->transformImageColorspace(Imagick::COLORSPACE_GRAY);
+                if ($result === false) {
+                    throw new ModifierException(
+                        'Failed to apply ' . self::class . ', unable to transform image to grayscale',
+                    );
+                }
+
+                // return to the colorspace of the source, grayscale is a color
+                // operation and is not meant to move the image to another one
+                $result = $frame->native()->transformImageColorspace($colorspace);
                 if ($result === false) {
                     throw new ModifierException(
-                        'Failed to apply ' . self::class . ', unable to modulate image',
+                        'Failed to apply ' . self::class . ', unable to transform image to grayscale',
                     );
                 }
             } catch (ImagickException $e) {
                 throw new ModifierException(
-                    'Failed to apply ' . self::class . ', unable to modulate image',
+                    'Failed to apply ' . self::class . ', unable to transform image to grayscale',
                     previous: $e,
                 );
             }
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Drivers/Gd/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php b/tests/Unit/Drivers/Gd/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
index 7beaf7502..09fffa4a3 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Drivers/Gd/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Drivers/Gd/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\CoversClass;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\RequiresPhpExtension;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Rgb\Channels\Red;
 use Intervention\Image\Modifiers\GrayscaleModifier;
 use Intervention\Image\Tests\GdTestCase;
 
@@ -21,4 +22,18 @@ public function testColorChange(): void
         $image->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
         $this->assertTrue($image->colorAt(0, 0)->isGrayscale());
     }
+
+    public function testSaturatedColorsKeepDistinctBrightness(): void
+    {
+        // blocks.png holds pure blue, green and red in three of its quadrants
+        $image = $this->readTestImage('blocks.png')->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
+
+        $blue = $image->colorAt(160, 120)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+        $green = $image->colorAt(160, 360)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+        $red = $image->colorAt(480, 360)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+
+        // any luma based conversion keeps blue darkest and green brightest
+        $this->assertLessThan($red, $blue);
+        $this->assertLessThan($green, $red);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php b/tests/Unit/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
index 6ccf3e68e..ccdaf82bb 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Drivers/Imagick/Modifiers/GrayscaleModifierTest.php
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@
 
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\CoversClass;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\RequiresPhpExtension;
+use Imagick;
+use ImagickPixel;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Cmyk\Channels\Cyan;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Cmyk\Channels\Key;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Cmyk\Channels\Magenta;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Cmyk\Channels\Yellow;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Cmyk\Colorspace as CmykColorspace;
+use Intervention\Image\Colors\Rgb\Channels\Red;
+use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Imagick\Core;
+use Intervention\Image\Drivers\Imagick\Driver;
+use Intervention\Image\Image;
 use Intervention\Image\Modifiers\GrayscaleModifier;
 use Intervention\Image\Tests\ImagickTestCase;
 
@@ -21,4 +32,71 @@ public function testColorChange(): void
         $image->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
         $this->assertTrue($image->colorAt(0, 0)->isGrayscale());
     }
+
+    public function testSaturatedColorsKeepDistinctBrightness(): void
+    {
+        // blocks.png holds pure blue, green and red in three of its quadrants
+        $image = $this->readTestImage('blocks.png')->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
+
+        $blue = $image->colorAt(160, 120)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+        $green = $image->colorAt(160, 360)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+        $red = $image->colorAt(480, 360)->channel(Red::class)->value();
+
+        // any luma based conversion keeps blue darkest and green brightest
+        $this->assertLessThan($red, $blue);
+        $this->assertLessThan($green, $red);
+    }
+
+    public function testColorspaceIsPreserved(): void
+    {
+        $image = $this->readTestImage('cmyk.jpg');
+        $this->assertInstanceOf(CmykColorspace::class, $image->colorspace());
+
+        $image->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
+
+        // grayscale is a color operation, it has no business moving a cmyk
+        // source to another colorspace
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            Imagick::COLORSPACE_CMYK,
+            $image->core()->frame(0)->native()->getImageColorspace(),
+        );
+
+        // the grey has to sit in the black channel, the three ink channels
+        // carry no color anymore
+        $color = $image->colorAt(0, 0);
+        $this->assertEquals(0, $color->channel(Cyan::class)->value());
+        $this->assertEquals(0, $color->channel(Magenta::class)->value());
+        $this->assertEquals(0, $color->channel(Yellow::class)->value());
+        $this->assertEqualsWithDelta(43, $color->channel(Key::class)->value(), 2);
+    }
+
+    public function testColorspaceIsPreservedOnEveryFrame(): void
+    {
+        // the frames deliberately do not share a colorspace, an implementation
+        // that reads the colorspace once outside the frame loop, or that
+        // hardcodes one, cannot satisfy this
+        $imagick = new Imagick();
+        $imagick->setFormat('tiff');
+
+        foreach ([Imagick::COLORSPACE_SRGB, Imagick::COLORSPACE_CMYK] as $colorspace) {
+            $frame = new Imagick();
+            $frame->newImage(4, 4, new ImagickPixel('red'), 'tiff');
+            $frame->transformImageColorspace($colorspace);
+            $frame->setImageDelay(10);
+            $imagick->addImage($frame);
+        }
+
+        $imagick->setFirstIterator();
+        $image = new Image(new Driver(), new Core($imagick));
+
+        $image->modify(new GrayscaleModifier());
+
+        foreach ([Imagick::COLORSPACE_SRGB, Imagick::COLORSPACE_CMYK] as $key => $colorspace) {
+            $this->assertEquals(
+                $colorspace,
+                $image->core()->frame($key)->native()->getImageColorspace(),
+                'Frame ' . $key . ' did not keep its colorspace',
+            );
+        }
+    }
 }