Unlock the power of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic to transform your color images into stunning black and white photographs!
In this comprehensive video tutorial, you will learn the BEST way to make captivating black and white images using Lightroom's secret Profile Browser and the Black and White Mix panel.
The Profile Browser is a hidden panel inside of Lightroom Classic’s Develop Module that contains a wide variety of black and white starting points. These profiles remap the colors of your original image into intriguing shades of gray. Choosing the right profile is the key to achieving the desired impact, and you can adjust the profile's strength with the Amount slider.
Next, you can refine the tones in your black and white image using the powerful Black and White Mix panel. The eight sliders in this panel make use of your image’s original color data and you can use them to refine the brightness for specific parts of your black and white image.
Moving the Blue slider, for example, towards a positive value tells Lightroom to remap all of the areas that were blue in your original image over to brighter shades of gray. Moving any of these sliders towards a negative value has the opposite effect.
You can either drag the Black and White Mix panel’s controls around yourself or you can activate the Target Adjustment Tool for additional assistance. Be gentle though when using these tools. Moving the Black and White Mix sliders too far can create weird artifacts or banding into your final image.
Unleash the true potential of your photographs by mastering the art of black and white image editing inside of Adobe Lightroom Classic.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 The Wrong Way To Make A Black & White With Lightroom
1:40 Using The Black & White Mix panel in Lightroom
5:15 Why Lightroom's Hidden Profile Browser Is The Best Method
9:00 Black and White Tone Refinements Using The Basic And Tone Curve Panels
10:45 Conclusion
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