{"id":3448,"date":"2005-08-01T19:01:35","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/01\/quick-black-and-white-viewing-in-os-x\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:01:57","slug":"quick-black-and-white-viewing-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/01\/quick-black-and-white-viewing-in-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Black and White viewing in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7874,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/30469195&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310023227\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/30469195&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/30469195&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 01:05:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:19:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:19:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A quick Mac OS X tip for photographers that I&#8217;ve found to be really handy in instances where you&#8217;d like to get an idea of how those color shots from your digital camera would look like when converted to black and white.<\/p>\n<p>When you have your latest photos displayed in iPhoto (or whatever photo management software you use), just go to <strong>System Preferences<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Universal Access<\/strong> and click the <strong>Use grayscale<\/strong> checkbox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/30469195\/\" title=\"Simple Black and White previewing in OS X\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/30469195_7754329dfa_o.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"473\" alt=\"Simple Black and White previewing in OS X\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your entire display will switch to greyscale mode, and you can flip through your entire photo album to get an idea of which shots work in black and white and which don&#8217;t without having to tweak each photo that <em>might<\/em> work one-by-one. Obviously, it&#8217;s probably simple desaturation and not the same quality you&#8217;d get using Photoshop&#8217;s channel mixer or some other fancier technique, but it&#8217;s quite handy for a quick overview to narrow down which shots are the best candidates for black and white work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSoup Dragons, The%2526albumTerm=Hotwired%2526songTerm=Running Wild%26 partnerId%3D30\">Running Wild<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1= itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSoup Dragons, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Soup Dragons, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSoup Dragons, The%2526albumTerm=Hotwired%26partnerId%3D30\">Hotwired<\/a><\/em> (1992, 4:02).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick Mac OS X tip for photographers that I&#8217;ve found to be really handy in instances where you&#8217;d like to get an idea of how those color shots from your digital camera would look like when converted to black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2050],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-photography","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}