If you yearn for the golden days of black-and-white photography or want to explore the possibilities, Dynamic Black & White is a great app to have. With the app's slider tools, you can fine-tune your photo in a dizzying number of ways. Sharpness, brightness and contrast controls are in the app, as well as tone and spotlight tools. The tone slider lets you add mood and depth to an image.
What's more, full-featured programs come with full-featured prices. That can put a damper on the creative fire of shutterbugs interested in experimenting with some of the alluring features of those apps.
Those creatives need not fret, however. There are single-purpose apps available at the Mac App Store that can give them a taste of some of the interesting things that can be done in a bloated image-editing suite.
One software developer, JixiPix, has an assortment of such single-purpose apps. Among them are Dramatic Black & White, Simply HDR and Pop Dot Comics.
These apps all range in the photo editing world. But finding one that fine-tunes to your needs...well you're going to have to read between the lines and test them out. But as a black-and-white photo enthusiast, this one might be my pick. Maybe yours as well.