Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography

Course details

Shoot in color, but think in black and white. In this course, Bryan O'Neil Hughes—the director of product management at Adobe—shares some of his favorite techniques for transforming color photographs into black and white using Lightroom and Photoshop. Learn how to prepare and fine-tune your photographs in Lightroom, and then move the images into Photoshop to take advantage of its nondestructive adjustment layers. Find out how to use the Silver Efex plugin for making monochrome adjustments. See how to convert video to black and white. Bryan closes with a video that pulls all the lessons together in a single end-to-end workflow, and demonstrates how share a portfolio using Spark.

Learning objectives
Shooting with black and white in mind
Preparing color images
Black-and-white mixing
Adjusting tones
Using presets effectively
Adjusting images in Camera RAW
Using a Smart Filter
Leveraging layer masks for black and white
Creating black-and-white HDR images
Leveraging adjustment layers
Using Lightroom for mobile

Concepts

Introduction

Create world-class black-and-white images with Lightroom and Photoshop
Why black and white

Black and White Considerations

Thinking in black and white
Shooting with black and white in mind
Getting the most out of the camera you have with you
Choosing black and white or color

Choosing the Right Lightroom

Which Lightroom is best for you

Black and White - First Steps in Lightroom

Getting started
Preparing a color image for black and white
The power of creative profiles
Black-and-white mixing and adding tone
Fine-tuning your image
Finish work using tools
Utilizing presets effectively
HDR for black and white
Panorama
Lightroom black-and-white workflow
Lightroom workflows for black and white

Black and White in Photoshop

Camera RAW and Smart Filters
Smart Filter
Making selective edits
Taking advantage of adjustment layers
Layer masks
Adjusting the toning of your image
Removing noise, adding grain, and sharpening
Photoshop black-and-white workflow
Transferring photos from Lightroom to Photoshop

Black and White - Beyond the Desktop

Lightroom for Mobile black and white

Beyond Black and White in Photoshop

Working with the Silver Efex plugin for Photoshop
Creating frames for black-and-white images
Converting color video to black and white

End-to-End Workflow

Putting it all together in a single image

Modern sharing

Sharing and collaboration
Portfolio
Spark

Conclusion

Next steps