10. Working in Black and White

Introduction

Black-and-white photography is an art form unto itself. Thankfully, the Lightroom developers at Adobe have recognized this and have provided you with a “digital darkroom” environment that offers an incredible amount of creative control over your black-and-white conversions.

When you apply the Convert to Black & White command, Lightroom does not convert the color image to Grayscale mode. Instead, it creates a desaturated version of the original color image, which remains in RGB mode. Lightroom ...

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