🎞 App Spotlight:Dramatic Black and White
If you’ve been enjoying experimenting with black-and-white photography on your phone, here’s another app to add to your creative toolkit: Dramatic Black and White, available for both iOS and Android.
As the name suggests, this app focuses on producing bold, expressive monochrome images—with a punch. Unlike simple desaturation filters, it gives you fine control over contrast, grain, vignetting, and tonal styles to create images that are anything but flat.
Why Try It?
📷 Powerful presets
Choose from moody noir, high-contrast documentary, soft romantic tones, and more. It’s like having a mini darkroom in your pocket.
🎛 Customisable sliders
Tweak light and shadow independently, control the strength of film grain, or add a subtle glow to your highlights.
🎨 Built-in toning options
Want a sepia feel? Or that classic selenium blue? You can add toning with one tap.
🖼 Edge effects and vignettes
Add a final touch with burned edges or soft fades to focus the eye and heighten mood.
Ideal For:
Portraits with impact
Street photography and candid shots
Still life and texture studies
Making ordinary subjects look cinematic
A Note on Style
This isn’t an app for subtle grey tones or minimal edits. True to its name, it leans toward the bold and theatrical—great for when you want to make a statement.
🎛 Understanding Presets in
Dramatic Black and White
Once you’ve opened an image in the Dramatic Black and White app, you’ll see a strip of preset thumbnails at the bottom. These are grouped into three distinct categories, each offering a different creative approach:
📂 The Three Preset Groups
Black and White
Classic monochrome looks with balanced tones—ideal for portraits, architecture, and general use. These typically emulate traditional black-and-white film with subtle contrasts and minimal effects.
Dramatic B&W
High-contrast, bold interpretations. Expect deeper blacks, stronger lighting effects, more grain, and heavier vignettes. These are great for storytelling images or moody scenes.
Infrared
Inspired by infrared film photography, these presets brighten foliage, blow out skies, and introduce unusual tonal shifts. Often ethereal or otherworldly—great for landscapes and garden scenes.
🖱 How to Use Them
Swipe left/right across the thumbnails to preview each preset
Tap any preset to apply it instantly
Use the edit sliders (adjustment icon) to fine-tune contrast, grain, vignette, glow, and more
Each preset acts as a starting point—use the controls above the image to customise it further to your taste.
Try It Out
You can download Dramatic Black and White from the App Store or Google Play. The base version is free, with optional upgrades for more styles and fine control.
🔗 Apple App Store – Dramatic Black and White
🔗 Google Play – Dramatic Black and White
If you try it out, do upload your favourite result to the WGPC Upload Folder—we’d love to see what you create.