Yep monochrome is black and white, they can be sepia or blue toned for example ofc

This post was edited by Tomes on Feb 27 2009 04:27am

theres a fancy word for grayscale dude. its called achromatic. do i need to explain it again?

achromatic:

possessing no hue : being or involving black, gray, or white.

monochromatic:

having or consisting of one color or hue.



black, white, and gray ARE NOT HUES!!

This post was edited by ZeRo-Europa on Feb 27 2009 10:09am

Apparently what you need to understand is that monochrome can also mean black and white.

Black, white and grey might not be hues, but they are colours, well, black might not be, but white certainly is.
Oh, heres another wiki link, proving you wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey


This post was edited by Veilside on Feb 27 2009 11:22am

no, black and white are NOT colours. get it through your thick skull.
btw, that doesn't prove me wrong. it merely says that both achromatic and monochromatic images are nuetral. it does not say that they are the same thing. because they aren't. why would they have different names if they were the same? sorry m8, but you're wrong.

This post was edited by ZeRo-Europa on Feb 27 2009 12:10pm

then, according to you, they must be colours

read it again imo.

ok ok. im gunna try my hardest to simplify this enough so that you guys can understand.

Black, Gray, and White are NOT colours, they are values. This makes them Achromatic (the proper name for an image that contains only blacks grays and whites.)

Every color has a a bunch of corresponding Hues. Black, Gray, and White are NOT hues nor do they have hues, they are values, therefore, they are NOT colours.
NOW... if an image consists of hues of only ONE color it is Monochromatic. Furthermore, because black, gray, and white are indeed NOT hues, an image that contains black, white, and gray, would not be considered monochromatic. but rather achromatic, which i have said far too many times. Understand now?

This post was edited by ZeRo-Europa on Feb 27 2009 12:38pm

no im sorry im still confused by your post where it says that

''monochromic = having or consisting of one colour or hue''

after this you state that

''black, white and gray ARE NOT HUES!!''

since a monochromic picture in my camera comes out default black and white, does this mean since ''black, white and gray ARE NOT HUES!!'' that the monochromic picture of mine consists of the colours, black and white. ''monochromic = having or consisting of one colour or hue''

wow guys. yes monochromatic means that it consists of hues. but black, white and gray are not hues. they are VALUES!!!!
that is why black and white images are Achromatic and NOT Monochromatic.

so basically what you ment to say was:

monochromatic:

having or consisting of one color or hue or value.


correct?

no i meant to say what i said.
monochromatic = color/hue
achromatic = values (aka black and white)

maybe using images will help:

here is an achromatic scale of values:



here is a monochromatic scale of different hues of orange:



this is not that complicated guys.




This post was edited by ZeRo-Europa on Feb 27 2009 01:17pm