Comments on: Black and White Conversion – 3 Options in Adobe Lightroom

By: Don McMahan

Don McMahan — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:25:26 +0000

lightroom is a much more powerful management tool than bridge, if you have thousands of images on several different external hard drives you HAVE TO HAVE Lightroom. also in the editing area it is just faster and easier than PS with what it can do, which isn”t near as much as PS can do but is usually all you need

By: audiomind

audiomind — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:15:16 +0000

I don’t understand the difference between the combination of Camera Raw (photoshop) and Bridge vs. Lightroom.

What’s the advantage here?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:17:39 +0000

i have adobe ellements 5. can anyone on here tell me how to make my picture black and white. then put some colour back into picture. can it be done on the adobe i have? anyone who can help me. i would apreciate it.

By: Bakari

Bakari — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:21:06 +0000

Really great article. I was working on a similar article for Aperture 2.0 users when I came upon this one.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:33:32 +0000

I like to back down the Clarity and Saturation sliders (but not all the way to 0), so there is a little bit of info left in the color channels (just not enough to be visible),and then use the Luminance sliders to adjust some of the contrast variations in the image. It takes a bit of time, but is great for getting certain areas of a photo to exactly the tone level you want.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:43:22 +0000

You can also down the saturation to 0 to have a black and white picture, and at many times the result is more interesting.

By: Sime

Sime — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:12:38 +0000

Loving LR2 a great piece of software. I am pretty baic when it comes to photo manipulation, but am slowly oming to terms with it!

@ John – thanks!

Cheers Christina, good post.

Sime

By: Nathan Chapman

Nathan Chapman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:52:51 +0000

Any thoughts on what photoshop might offer that Lightroom does not (in terms of B&W) or am I just not thinking hard enough?
- Rosh

@ Rosh:
All I can think of are the photo-manipulation tools: select, cut, copy, extract etc. But that’s not what we need as photographers, eh?

Nathan

By: John Waire

John Waire — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:23:28 +0000

Forgot to mention. They are FREE!!!

By: John Waire

John Waire — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:22:57 +0000

OnOne Software offers some killer presets for Lightroom. 85 in total. They are great starting points for really making your photos pop. Plenty of Black & White options.

They can be downloaded here:

http://www.ononesoftware.com/downloads/

Enjoy!