Grayscale
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In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a grayscale or greyscale image is one in which the value of each pixel holds no color information. Pixel values are typically store
Examples of conversion from a full-color image to grayscale using Adobe Photoshop's Channel Mixer, compared to the original image and colorimetric conversion to grayscale
photographer: Jialiang Gao - year: 2008 - license: CC BY-SA 3.0
Black and white
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Black-and-white or monochrome images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as grayscale in technical settings.
Grayscale
…the value of each pixel holds no color information. Pixel values are typically stored in the range 0 to 255 (black to white). Grayscale images, are black-and-white or gray monochrome - composed exclusively of shades of gray. The contrast ranges from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest. Grayscale…
A black-and-white photo of a breadfruit plant, c. 1870
McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana – Ansel Adams – Taken between 1933 and 1942