Black and white image
Take the colour out of a photo, and choose how hard the contrast lands.
Your file
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It stays on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Settings
Contrast is the whole job
A straight desaturation often disappoints, because colours that felt very different can carry almost the same brightness. The result reads as a grey fog. Raising contrast pushes the darks down and the lights up, which is what gives monochrome photography its structure.
Portraits usually want a gentler hand than architecture or street scenes, where hard contrast flatters the geometry.
Common questions
Which format should I save to?
PNG if the image is going to be edited further, JPEG if it is going straight onto a page. Black and white JPEGs compress very well.
Is the colour recoverable?
No. Keep the original file.