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How to convert images to black and white in Lightroom

How to convert images to black and white in Lightroom
Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems Your guide: Martin Evening Martin Evening has a background in advertising and landscape photography. He is also well known for his knowledge of Photoshop and Lightroom, plus books on digital imaging

Photoshop guru Martin Evening sorts out your photo-editing and post-processing problems Your guide: Martin Evening Martin Evening has a background in advertising and landscape photography. He is also well known for his knowledge of Photoshop and Lightroom, plus books on digital imaging. Visit www.martinevening.com Paul’s original This photograph was taken on Weybourne Beach, Norfolk. AP reader Paul Smith writes: ‘The sea-weathered rusty tractor in this scene, used to haul fishing boats, caught my eye due to its character and the bright colours against the deep blue sky. Although the colours of the tractor stood out, I struggled with the composition. Eventually I settled on shooting wideangle using a low-down viewpoint so as to use the track imprints as lead-in lines to the main subject and to remove other distractions from the composition.” What Martin did next… My response was to apply a cinematic crop to the photograph to focus more on the tractor, and to use a localised filter adjustment to make the tractor stand out more. Paul was keen to see how the photograph would look in black & white. I therefore used the Profile Browser in Lightroom to select a suitable black & white profile, where I […]

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