BLACK - B&W Film Emulator App Reviews

It doesnt do as much as some photo editing apps but what it does, it does well. Manual edits (fade, vignette, & curves - all of which have a different (& easy to use) UI from most apps - require an IAP, but at only $.99 (in the U.S.) its hardly even pocket change. I hear about the app from Erin Brooks (erinbrooks dot me) and it was an instant search and get (then buy) for me.

I do not know why. Useless.

Better apps for b&w. Poor resolution for saving. Also, iPad compatible really means, looks like crap on iPad.

Love the app... I dont know why all that crying about.! Must be some people from other developers :-/ 5 stars. If you like BW work, just get it... Price seems like drooped a buck!

App does what it promises. I had NO loss of resolution to my exported images. The filters are amazing! The app has never crashed. I like it. I use it!

Well, I loaded a photo and went right to TRI-X 400, my film of choice a million years ago, and it looked EXACTLY as I thought it should. The presets are great. I happily paid a buck for manual adjustments. I still wanted a bit more control and so did final adjustments in another app, but in short, Im in love with this app and give a sincere thanks to the developer, who obviously loves old black and white film as much as I do!

When I launch this app, I see a screen that tells me to add pictures but there is no interface to do so. I have swiped, pinched, uninstalled and reinstalled the app but I cant get it to do anything. Cant figure out what Im doing wrong n

First off lets talk about exported resolution, the people that are saying photos are exported in low resolution are wrong. This app has some incredible black-and-white filters, plus the app itself is well-made. In most cases I think theyre black and white filters are better than Vsco.

Ive used this app for quite a while so I finally paid for the upgrade to use the fade, curves, and vignette. The app renders some unique and pleasant results for B/W emulation with a few small caveats... In the next update it would be great to see: - A/B control of "original photo to filtered photo" - a press and hold on the photo within the app would be preferred. - MORE FILM EMULATIONS PLEASE!!! The existing filters are great but theyre limited. Would nice to have more options. - Fade works great, but Curves and Vignette in particular need a little attention to be more user friendly and useful. i.e. When using vignette - its not engaged until you tap on the screen and move it around a little. This makes no sense. In addition the fine controls for vignette are clumsy and make rendering a proper vignette a pain in the butt. Would also like to see a center focus feature to accompany vignette to help illuminate the center of the photo. Lastly, curves is pretty much fine but a "hide feature would be great so that the results of your adjustments could be more easily seen & it would also be nice to have a clear all feature to remove all nodes. - Last request would be to have a feature that allows the easy removal of a vignette or fade with the tap of a button, like clear or something if you change your mind. Awesome app overall just needs a little fine tuning.

One of the best apps for photo editing on WP and IOS

Please allow non-destructive saving to the camera roll or add the ability to use as an extension.

Tried this for the first time today, very realistic film-based preset effects. The app saves at full resolution, 24.2mp tested on iPadAir, without difficulty. There are no ads, and a single IAP for the manual controls, which you can try first to see their effect; a very nice set of controls, and well worth the $.99 IAP. Overall, the app produces excellent results, and with high resolution saves, this one is a keeper. Just wish it was Universal, or at least a separate iPad version.

The in-app photo library is extremely annoying, and the photo editing controls are very anemic. At least it has a curves adjustment, but for a black and white specific application it is missing a lot of needed features.

Excellent app. Film simulations are well done and organic. I hope the developers can provide even more film choices and a broader selection of post processing tools(channels,sharpening etc). This would make it even more of a one stop photo editor. That said, it still has become one of my go to apps.

great for editing pictures in bnw, id recommend you to give it a try!

Gorgeous app. Simple and elegant. Im hoping for more filters and such in future updates. A quick look before and after would the one thing it doesnt seem to have that it could use, perhaps I just missed it.