How to pull black-and-white photos from Flickr

Just a quick tip that might be obvious to some, but dawned on me only yesterday. The new image import tool has Flickr support, which is terrific for mockups that feature photos: catalogs, address books, etc. The problem is that imported full-color photos will overwhelm most any mockup: placed inside those black-and-white hand-drawn widgets, they look out of place and are awfully distracting.

Fortunately, the image import tool uses tag-based queries, and on Flickr it's an unofficial standard to add a "bw" tag to black-and-white photos. So, include a "bw" as one of the keywords in the Flickr import field, and you'll get a set of shots that play nice with the rest of the mockup's design.