Monochrome, Black & White, Grayscale - are they the same OR different ? if so how ?
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4th May 2016, 09:44 PM #1
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4th May 2016, 10:04 PM #2Moderator
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Re: Monochrome, Black & White, Grayscale
Black & White and grayscale are effectively the same thing. You could make up an image of pure black and pure white only, but at least in photography, that is not what is done.
Monochrome, not quite as you could be using some other colour; sepia, blue, etc. As long as you are sticking to a single tonal family it is monochrome. That really means that both black & white / grayscale are a specific subset of monochrome.
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4th May 2016, 10:05 PM #3
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Re: Monochrome, Black & White, Grayscale
I've gotten to the point that I'll rarely discuss terminology because so many people understandably have different understandings of what this or that term means. Even so...
All black-and-white images are monochromes. However, not all monochromes are black-and-white, as any toned image such as a sepia is also a monochrome. Black-and-white is synonymous with grayscale.
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