Color to Black & White

How do I change a bitmap being displayed from color to Black & white ?

Not too sure on this, but I think you have to add the red, green and blue values together, and take the average of them (by diving them by 3).

VB Code:

Private Declare Function SetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal crColor As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetPixel Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long) As Long
 
Private Sub Command1_Click()
 
    For x = 0 To Picture2.Width / Screen.TwipsPerPixelX
        For y = 0 To Picture2.Height / Screen.TwipsPerPixelY
            DoEvents
            lColor = GetPixel(Picture2.hdc, x, y)
            lRed = lColor Mod &H100
            lGreen = Int(lColor / &H100) Mod &H100
            lBlue = Int(lColor / &H10000) Mod &H100
            t = Abs(Int((lRed + lGreen + lBlue) / 3))
            SetPixel hdc, x, y, RGB(t, t, t)
        Next y
    Next x
    
End Sub

Thanks Megatron.
Btw, if you are working in Win 2000, you can use SetColorAdjustment to get a negative. You can even increase or decrease the brightness, gamma levels etc

How to then save this as a black and white bitmap?

TIA

I think VBEMPIRE has the right values, it's not just / 3.

the CCIR recomended use for RGB -> monochrome conversion is luminance for use on monochrome monitors.

Y = 0.299*R + 0.587*G + 0.114*B

color = RGB(Y,Y,Y)