From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography
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Taking advantage of adjustment layers
From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography
Taking advantage of adjustment layers
- [Instructor] We've talked a lot about using Lightroom and Camera Raw for black and white conversions, and I do think that that's one of the very, very best ways of doing it. But in Photoshop, Photoshop really speaks a different language natively, and that's the language of layers. And layers have a lot of unique potential, and I want to show you what the workflow looks like around black and white. It's a lot like Camera Raw in that we're going to tune for a really nice color image before converting to black and white. So let's start with this image here, and we're going to walk through just a couple of my favorite adjustment layers. This is a flat image, there are no layers yet, but in the adjustment panel, as soon as I come to curves, I've created a curves adjustment layer. Now for a lot of folks this can be a scary and intimidating dialogue. You've got some great presets here, so I could come in here and say I just want stronger contrast, and that's what I've got, it's mapped a…
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Camera RAW and Smart Filters5m 10s
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Smart Filter1m 50s
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Making selective edits3m 9s
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Taking advantage of adjustment layers4m 53s
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Layer masks3m 54s
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Adjusting the toning of your image2m 7s
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Removing noise, adding grain, and sharpening5m 30s
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Photoshop black-and-white workflow4m 48s
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Transferring photos from Lightroom to Photoshop2m 27s
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