The Landscape Photography Book

Two Methods for Adding Contrast

The most obvious is the Contrast slider (in the Basic panel), and I lean on this slider a lot—drag it to the right to add contrast; drag it to the left to remove it (great for that Instagram look). I love really contrasty images, so I often crank the Contrast amount quite a bit (especially on B&W images), which makes your whites whiter and blacks blacker. Those things together have the byproduct of making your colors more vibrant, so it’s all good. Now, don’t add contrast until you’ve set your white and black points because increasing the amounts of Whites and Blacks adds contrast already, so do that before you ...