Black and White Photos

When ordering a book that contains many black and white images, it is extremely helpful for our production team to be notified as soon as your is placed. To notify us, it's best to send an email to our Customer Care team Monday-Friday during daytime hours in NZT with your order number.

Please make sure that your black and white photos have a RGB or sRGB color profile. We are unable to support greyscale color profiles, and if your photos have a greyscale color profile, they will have a dull print result. The Design Studio is not able to detect what color profile your images have so it is important to check what color profile they have before uploading them into the Design Studio.

We will print your whole book project to match your digital images as viewed on a calibrated monitor and don't color correct your images in any way, so it is important to note that if your digital black and white images have a color cast, this color cast will be visible in the print result also.

Be prepared to see slightly more image grain in these images than in your color images. The image grain will be more noticeable in print when viewed to scale in your printed book.

Additionally, high contrast black and white images can have very dark areas that may appear more "filled in" in print, so you might wish to adjust those images in a photo editing software prior to upload.

Most black and white images will print without any issue, however if your images are particularly high contrast, grainy, dark, or are old scans, check for issues at 200% of the image size and understand that any issues visible at this scale will be more pronounced or noticeable in print.

See here for tips on choosing the right templates for your images; tip #3 is helpful with regards to black and white images in particular.