From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography

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Lightroom black-and-white workflow

Lightroom black-and-white workflow

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Lightroom black-and-white workflow

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- [Instructor] Okay we've covered a lot a ground in Lightroom about how to walk a color image to black-and-white, fine-tune it, and what I'd like to do is take an image, sort of from, start to finish and I chose this one here, it's got a lot of problems. This is exactly how it came off the camera. I don't know if this is going to be a good image, I don't know if it's going to be great for color or black-and-white, so let's work with this one, let's take it into the develop module, and the very first thing I'm going to do is go over here to the left and see if any of these presets are going to work. It's a great starting point, Lightroom's got a few of em, I can confirm that yeah it looks better as black and white but even with my own presets, not exactly what I'm looking for, doesn't surprise me, the image needs a lot of tonal adjustment, so now I'm going to come over here to my basic module and I'm going to start with auto, and it's…

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