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Black-and-white mixing and adding tone

Black-and-white mixing and adding tone

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Black-and-white mixing and adding tone

- [Instructor] Okay, so we've converted our color image to black and white, and it's definitely taken on a more dramatic look, and for the most part, the exposure is balanced, and things are lookin' pretty good, but now, we want to play around with those individual channels of color and really make it a better looking black and white. So if we come down here, we see that we have a lot more sliders than we're accustomed to, and that Lightroom speaks a different language, it's much friendlier than say, Photoshop. You have familiar terms like orange, aqua, but what's tricky here is figuring out how those map to your black and white image, because we know certain things, the sky's probably blue, so that's going to make it darker or lighter, but where purple and magenta factor in really isn't as clear, so what I like to do here is choose this On Image Control, and this is really handy for a couple of different reasons. It's…

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