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Edit street photography in black and white — hard contrast, real grain, a vignette that pulls the eye in.
Street photography usually rewards a decisive, high-contrast black-and-white treatment rather than a flat, neutral one. noir.photos gives you presets built for exactly that plus the sliders to push further, so you can go from a phone photo to a finished frame without learning a full photo editor first.
Presets built for contrast and grain
High Contrast pushes shadows down and highlights up for a bold, graphic read — useful when a street scene has strong light and hard edges to begin with. 35mm Grain adds visible texture on top of a more moderate contrast curve, closer to the look of pushed black-and-white film. Both are starting points, not fixed looks — every slider underneath stays open to adjustment.
Deep shadows without losing the frame
The Shadows and Highlights sliders let you decide how much detail survives in the darkest and brightest parts of a frame — useful in street photography, where a doorway or an alley often needs to read as genuinely dark rather than a washed-out gray. Exposure and Contrast sit alongside them for the rest of the adjustment.
A vignette that pulls the eye to your subject
Street frames are often busy at the edges — other people, signage, passing traffic. A vignette darkens those edges just enough to hold attention on the subject you actually meant to photograph, without needing to crop tighter or lose any of the original frame.
From your phone, on the go
JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and HEIC photos all open directly, including HEIC straight from an iPhone, with no separate conversion step first. Once you've loaded noir.photos, it also works installed and offline, so a full afternoon of shooting can be edited later without needing a connection. Shot a whole roll's worth in one walk? Batch mode applies one look to the entire set and exports it as a single ZIP.
Nothing leaves your device
Every adjustment above runs locally in your browser, and nothing about the photos you're editing is uploaded anywhere to make it happen.
Frequently asked questions
Which preset works best for street photography?
High Contrast and 35mm Grain are the two built with that kind of scene in mind, but both are just starting points — adjust the sliders underneath to fit your actual photo.
Can I edit a whole set of photos from one walk at once?
Yes. Batch mode applies a single look to as many photos as you add, then exports the finished set as one ZIP file.
Do I need to convert my iPhone photos before editing them?
No. HEIC files open directly, the same as JPG, PNG, WebP, or AVIF — there's no separate conversion step.
Does this work without uploading my photos anywhere?
Yes. Every preset, slider, and export runs in your browser; the photos themselves never get sent anywhere else.