BWStyler

BWStyler is a useful and approachable program designed to provide an easy method to apply impressive black and white effects to create interesting and vintage pieces of art using your favorite images as base. It comes with a wide range of filter types and presets, masking tools and can be utilized as a standalone program or as a plug-in for most popular applications (e.g. Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP).

It's wrapped in a modern and user-friendly layout that offers three preview tabs to view multiple effects at the same time, a split view tool, along with five individual modes, namely, easy, quick, photography, advanced simple and plus. The supported file formats are various camera raw, JPG, PCD, TGA, TIF and BMP.

BWStyler is useful to easily recreate the look of old movies, lens filters, lab, toners and picture papers, which are popular in traditional black and white photography. It lets you produce stunning black and white results that are not possible with normal camera films and uses the complete color contrast ranges to achieve dramatic outputs and transform dull photos into beautiful black and white ones.

It comes with different modes for inexperienced, intermediate and advanced users that give you the ability to gradually add and tweak effects, as well as improve your items one at a time. Easy mode displays thumbnails of almost all available predefined filters and provides sliders to further adjust a specific preset.

Photography style lets you to quickly combine distinct groups of presets, such as film grain, lens filters, dynamic and tonal effects, color toners, vignettes and frames. Each element can easily be adjusted in the two advanced modes. The quick method offers the most practical controls to swiftly enhance images while the last two styles, provide full control over all functions with advanced features.

The bottom line is that BWStyler is a reliable and interactive utility that comes in handy for everyone who needs a feature-rich and easy-to-use tool to create vintage and high-quality pieces of art, using a large variety of black and white filters and a multitude of correction elements.