Film Noir

Film Noir is a feature-rich and intuitive program designed to provide a professional yet simple method to alter and correct images, using filters and effects, in order to get a vintage black/white look on your items.

It's wrapped in a modern and approachable interface, which changes once you selected the desired picture. It brings three distinct tabs, namely, film noirs, dark room, and light paint, located on the right side of the window, Unfortunately, the black themed approach is hard to see and may frustrate those with poor vision.

It supports a wide array of formats, as it can load both the common types, like JPG, BMP, PNG, TIF, and JPEG, as well as the lesser- known ones, such as DNG, DCR, FFF, ARW, RAF, or RAW.

Film Noir offers the option to either drag-and-drop the image directly into the panel or open it using the file browser. Sadly, it can process one item at a time. The first tab lets you pick the desired preset effect, such as classique, ancient, mat, sepia, winter, spring, or smoked.

You have the possibility to create your own styles, by picking the preset, and tweaking the provided elements, from the other two tabs. The dark room section, lets you adjust the brightness, contrast, shadows, midtones, highlights, and details, as well as the color levels and add camera film, grain, and vignette filters.

From the last panel, you can select the light and shadow painting brushes properties, like size, softness, and intensity, and draw with them over the picture. This lightens or darkens the photo. Once you're done, the output can be saved to any of the offered formats.

Taking everything into account, Film Noir is a reliable and stylish application that comes in handy for both novices and professionals to correct and enhance the quality of images, while offering a black/white effect to them.