Ideas for showing items not yet available

In my game, some items will only be available to the player according to the level he is in the game.
Usually, some games handle this as follows:

  1. Leave items unavailable in grayscale
  2. Just don’t list the unavailable items.

I particularly think it’s interesting that ALL items are listed so that the player knows what they will achieve as they level up.

However, many of the items I have are mostly gray originals, so there will be no visual difference between whether this item is available or not. Example:

Original:
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Converted to greyscale in Photoshop:
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As you can see above, there are no major differences between the original image and the image converted to grayscale.

So I ask: any better ideas for listing unavailable items in a visually different way than available items?

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Maybe try to use another Image above it. For example, a lock.

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Combining a lock over the image and leaving the image semi-transparent, creates excellent contrast.

image

Thanks.

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