PixByShep presents · Monochrome Lab Pro

A darkroom for the way you see in black & white.

Name: Monochrome Lab Pro
Price: 129.99 USD

You came for the photographs. This is the software I built to make them—a focused Mac editor for turning color into tone, shaping light locally, and finishing a complete body of work.

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Free · no card · Apple silicon Mac

Black-and-white detail of a classic automobile photographed by Tony Shepherd — Photograph by Tony Shepherd

Monochrome Lab Pro editing workspace on macOS — From my feed to your darkroom.

14 daysComplete app. No card.

One purchaseNo subscription.

Local-firstYour photographs stay on your Mac.

Made by the photographerDirect support from Tony.

One thing. Built from the work.

Not another portfolio.
The tool behind it.

My Instagram is about seeing: shape, surface, distance, shadow, and the moment an ordinary subject becomes something else.

Monochrome Lab Pro is where that way of seeing becomes a finished photograph. It is deliberately specific—because black and white is not the absence of color. It is a different way of building an image.

A beam of light photographed in black and white

A quiet fence and field photographed in black and white

Close-up black-and-white photograph of an automobile wheel

01 / Seeing

Photographs with depth, restraint, and a point of view.

A complete monochrome workflow

Less software.
More photograph.

Every part of the workspace exists to help you make clearer tonal decisions—from a single frame to a finished set.

Shape the response

Color becomes tonal material.

RAW development, M2/M3/M4 Signal Paths, eight-band Color Response, and 3D LAB Profiles give you intentional control before the image becomes monochrome.

Refine what matters

Work locally. Keep the image whole.

Tone Curve, masks, Dodge & Burn, Spot Heal, grain, diffusion, borders, and finishing controls—without leaving the darkroom.

Local Dodge and Burn controls in Monochrome Lab Pro

Finish the set

One look across a body of work.

Compare, Reference, selective Sync Settings, a local Library, Layouts, and high-bit batch export keep complete stories coherent.

Tony Shepherd, photographer and creator of Monochrome Lab Pro

Built by Tony Shepherd · PixByShep

“Most photo editors have to be everything to everyone. This one can be much more specific.”

I’m a Nashville-based photographer, Ricoh and Tamron ambassador, and the person behind PixByShep. I built Monochrome Lab Pro from the photographer’s side of the screen: focused, local-first, and made for the exact decisions black-and-white work asks you to make.

95K+ following the workRicoh + Tamron ambassadorMade and supported in Nashville

Bring your own photograph

See what it looks like
when the darkroom fits the work.

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