- [Instructor] When you convert a black and white image
with Lightroom Classic, the conversion is non-destructive.
This means the color information is still there
under the hood, and the tones can be edited individually
by working with the underlying colors.
Understanding how this works gives you the tools needed
to create the best possible black and white conversions
from your color photos.
We'll use the virtual copy that we just created,
found in the Chapter Seven 07_02 folder,
to see how this works.
And I'll switch to the Develop Module.
And before I get started,
I'm actually going to take this back to Color,
because I want to show you what happens here.
I'll click on the Color treatment.
I'll collapse the Histogram too,
so that we have a little bit more room
on the right hand side.
Pay attention right here, where the panel says HSL color.
When I change this to the black and white treatment,
this panel becomes the Black and White panel.
And if we open this panel, we'll find mixers
for black and white based on the color tones.
Let's take a look at the original color in this image
by making the Filmstrip bigger so that we can see it.
So this leaf in the lower right hand corner here is green.
So if we take the green slider to the left,
it's going to make that area darker.
And if I move it to the right, it makes it lighter.
This area up in the upper right hand corner is blue.
So if I take the blue slider to the left,
it's going to make that wall darker.
We also have a target adjustment tool here
in the upper left hand corner.
I'll click on it.
That loads it into my cursor.
Then I can target these orange colors here in the leaf.
And as I drag down, we'll see that both the red
and the orange sliders move
to darken those orangy red colors.
So these edits edit tones based on color.
If we switch back to the Basic Panel,
anything we do here is going to edit the tones globally.
I'm going to take the highlights all the way down
and the shadows all the way up,
and then brighten it up a little bit with some exposure,
because it was just a little bit too dark.
And while we're here, let's go to the Transform panel
and straighten this up.
I don't like how crooked it is.
We'll just click on the Auto button
and see how much better that looks.
Lightroom Classic also offers some presets
for black and white.
So let's explore that next.
Over in the left side panel group, we have Presets.
I'll click to open that.
And then we have black and white presets.
These come with Lightroom Classic.
And as you hover over a preset, you get a real time preview
of what that's going to do.
Let's explore this further by creating another virtual copy.
So, I'll click on the Master File here in the Filmstrip
and do a Command + apostrophe to create another virtual copy
and then choose the first black and white preset,
the black and white landscape.
And then let's come over here and open the Basic Panel
and take a look here where it changed the profile
to black and white 04.
And if I choose black and white high contrast,
it changed to a different profile, black and white 03.
So these presets will change the profile of the image
as well as the black and white mix.
Let's open the Black and White panel here,
and then come down
and choose the black and white infrared preset.
And we'll see that it moved the yellow
and green all the way to a plus 100.
Let's reset this back to Color, and explore those profiles.
I'm going to go back to the Basic Panel,
open the Profile Browser,
and then scroll down towards the bottom.
You see the black and white profiles.
And as we hover over these profiles,
we get the real time preview as well.
I'm going to choose the Black and White 10 profile
by clicking on it.
And then clicking close to go back to the Basic Panel.
Remember that the profiles are a starting point.
They don't move any of the edit sliders.
So choosing a black and white profile
is going to give us a different starting point
for our black and white.
Let's apply auto tone to this
and take the shadows all the way up so that we can see
into the shadow of that doorway there.
And I'll crank the clarity up on this one as well,
and maybe brighten it up just a little bit
with a plus exposure.
So we've done global tonal edits to this
with the Basic Panel.
Now we'll open the Black and White panel
and do some edits based on color.
I'll use the target adjustment tool here
and target the yellow colors
by clicking on this leaf here and dragging down,
I can turn the yellows into a darker color.
And while we're here, let's transform this one too,
so that it looks a lot better like the other one.
Then we can look
at these two different black
and white conversions side by side
by selecting both of them in the Filmstrip
and going to the Survey Mode,
and see how very different they look.
Creating black and whites
with Lightroom Classic is so much fun.
You can experiment with different looks
without fear of breaking anything.
Lightroom Classic provides that flexibility and control
over individual tones with it's non-destructive editing.