How do i turn screenshots black and white in Paint.net

[jadebullet]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone who had some experience with Paint.net knew how to turn your screenshots black and white. I tried searching for this on the forum but couldnt find anything. Thank you very much.

 

[Smileyman]

I don't use Paint.net as Photoshop fills all my needs (although you may have just given me the push I needed to take another look at it), but there's probably a filter or effect that will do it.

Fail in that, changing the colour mode to Greyscale will do it, and if you wanted to add colour over the top of the black & white pic, you can change it back to RGB (which will still keep the original pic black & white).

I'm pretty sure that there's a "sepia" effect that comes with Paint.net, which might be a good enough effect for you.

Smiley.

 

[Stagefright]

Under the Adjustments menu, you can convert to b&w, sepia, or try the hue/saturation for more effects.

Darrel

 

[jadebullet]

thanks guys. I really appriciate it.

 

[freightcar2]

Can you do it in MSPaint? If so, how??

 

[mezzoprezzo]

Can you do it in MSPaint? If so, how??

There is a pathway in MSPaint: Select Image>Attributes

At the bottom of the dialog box you'll see two selections under Colours where you can change the selection to Black and white.

Unfortunately I've never had any luck with using it. MSPaint warns you that proceeding with the selection is irreversible. All I've ever managed to achieve is a completely black screen.:'( However, I did backup the original image.

I use MSPaint for almost all of my screenshots. On the odd occasion when I want to convert to a B&W image, or try any other clever stuff, I use Gimp which is available as a free download.

 

[slabay]

I use Photoshop, and in Photoshop, you go into the image adjustments and choose desaturate.

a) I'm sure that paint.net has something similar
b) GIMP is a free photo editor that has similar actions to Photoshop
c) Photoshop.com has a free PhotoShop Express that lets you edit stuff.

Just a few more tools for you to use if you'd like, and they have the magic word: free! free! free!!

 

[PerRock]

Probably one of the most easiest & universal ways to make an image B&W is to just drop out the Saturation on the image. Unless your printing the image out that will work just fine. Almost all image editors have a Saturation Adjustment somewhere in it (I don't classify MS Paint as an Image Editor...)

peter