It features more than 150 pre-sets to get you started, but you can easily create your own looks. Yes, many of these tools are available in Photoshop and Lightroom, but this app is quicker and easier to use. It's US$24.99 (on sale for $17.99 through the weekend) at the Mac App Store, and it offers great control over the final look of your black-and-white image.
Today, there's a Mac app called Tonality. Talented photographers like the late Ansel Adams, who worked primarily in black and white, often shot with colored filters to highlight certain aspects of a subject, and then spent hours in the darkroom getting the tonality just right.
Of course, producing a monochrome image from a color one is not as simple as removing the color information. I used to think that my photos needed color to be compelling, but a good black-and-white image can be very powerful.
