Is there any way to make your computer screen black and white?

[johnjbruin]

You know when you are in windows XP and you click shutdown, there is a dialog that comes up that says 'Turn off computer"

If you don't click anything on it, the dialog stays colored, while all your background applications and rest of the desktop become disabled and become black and white.

Is there any way to just do replicate this black and white behavior?

 

[MustISO]

Black and white theme?

 

[Special K]

I remember one of my really old video cards (some Matrox 2 MB card, circa 1996) had a "monochrome" option in the color scheme under display properties.

 

[Agentbolt]

Point a camcorder at it with a black and white filter and only look through the viewfinder.

Problem = SOLVED.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Point a camcorder at it with a black and white filter and only look through the viewfinder.

Problem = SOLVED.

Come on that would be a really old camcorder.

Just cut a few of the pins off the monitor cable.

 

[Agentbolt]

A lot of camcorders these days have filters like black and white, sepia, inverted, etc.

Playing F.E.A.R. in sepia would kick ass.

 

[johnjbruin]

Are there any video cards that have options like this though? Like sepia, or B&W?

 

[xtknight]

ATI used to have shader effects to make games Sepia-like, etc. SMARTSHADER I believe.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Agentbolt
A lot of camcorders these days have filters like black and white, sepia, inverted, etc.

Playing F.E.A.R. in sepia would kick ass.

ATi had an option that allowed global filtering of all D3D and OGL accelerated stuff and that was one of the options IIRC.

 

[Agentbolt]

No video cards I'm aware of.

Does your monitor have a color option? Like a TV does, it's a slider that adjusts saturation. Moving it all the way to the left would leave you with black and white

 

[Insomniator]

my dad has also been searchin for a way to do this..

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: Insomniator
my dad has also been searchin for a way to do this..

It just seems like a black and white display would be much more soothing to the eyes.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: johnjbruin

Originally posted by: Insomniator
my dad has also been searchin for a way to do this..

It just seems like a black and white display would be much more soothing to the eyes.

Find a first generation Mac.

Now I'm searching for a way to do this as well, just because.

 

[Agentbolt]

Dudes, turn off your color saturation in your monitor's menu. Instant black and white

 

[KK]

I remember when the porn was in black and white.