“They were color pictures of black and white . . .”
–Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
CHAPTER 10
COLOR IN BLACK-AND-WHITE
You may be asking yourself why there’s a chapter about black-and-white image-making in a book dedicated to color. However, if you’ve spent much time in Lightroom, you may have noticed that the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders update to read “Black & White Mix” when you switch to Black & White mode. This feature allows you to raise or lower the light levels of each indivudal color from your original image, which means that you can make more nuanced adjustments to specific gray levels in your image than you could by adjusting the contrast or tone curves. In this chapter, we will cover how to intentionally light your images ...
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