Is Your Photo Color or Black & White?
QUICK LINKS
BLACK & WHITE Photographers Facebook group was created to celebrate the art of black & white photography...
I saved my photo as a BLACK & WHITE image and it was still deleted.
We are discovering that some images saved in cell phones as "black & white" are not truly B&W...
HOW WE DOUBLE CHECK YOUR "BLACK & WHITE" IMAGES
We look at several photos at a time...
A sharp eye will already notice that there are some photos with color. After copying these photos, we run them rhrough Photoshop and increase the saturation. Photos that are truly black and white imagew will always remain black and white. Those that have any color at all, will be easily noticed.
As you can see, at least five photos have color. When we see photos with color, we have Facebook send the poster a notification and a warning. It is our hope, that the photographer will learn how to make his/her photo a true black and white image. If, after 3 warnings, we will suspend the member for a few days. If they post another photo with color, making that 4 violations, we will suspend that member for 28 days. If they continue to post photos with color we will ban them from membership in the group and remove all of their photos. Please help us with this by making sure your photos are true black and white imags.
HOW CAN I BE ABSOLUTELY SURE MY PHOTO IS BLACK & WHITE?
1. Save as grayscale image...
2. Or completely desaturate your photo...
Convert Your Color Image to Black & White in Photoshop
Examples of Photos that are NOT B&W
On the left, you will see the original photo exactly as it was posted to Black & White Photographers. On the right you will see that we have corrected the image to a true black and white photo. Unfortunately, we do not have the time to do this for every photo that comes in with color. These are simply examples for you to see how many images have color when they are posted to our group.
