If you’ve spent any time trying to simulate the look of monochrome (aka black-and-white) photography the first thing you realize is that it’s not a simple matter of taking a color image and desaturating it. There’s a lot more going on.

If you’ve spent any time trying to simulate the look of monochrome (aka black-and-white) photography the first thing you realize is that it’s not a simple matter of taking a color image and desaturating it. There’s a lot more going on.