From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography
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Black-and-white mixing and adding tone
From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography
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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Getting started1m 13s
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Preparing a color image for black and white4m 25s
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The power of creative profiles2m 37s
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Black-and-white mixing and adding tone4m 46s
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Fine-tuning your image6m 35s
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Finish work using tools4m 18s
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Utilizing presets effectively3m 9s
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HDR for black and white3m 22s
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Panorama4m 2s
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Lightroom black-and-white workflow4m 49s
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Lightroom workflows for black and white3m 57s
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