Make punchy mono portraits

Discover how to create punchy black-and-white portraits in Adobe Camera Raw or Lightroom

There are lots of ways to convert your images to monochrome, but the most effective offer more than just a one-click solution. The best methods give us tonal control over colours. This might sound strange. After all, we’re getting rid of the colour aren’t we? But we can still use the colour information to fine-tune the black-and-white conversion. With our image here, for example, we can lift the orange colours to lighten the skin and drop the greens slightly to darken the out-of-focus trees. This allows us to increase the contrast between the subject and the background, which helps to make her stand out. Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin and Lightroom’s Develop Module both offer tools within the powerful HSL/Grayscale panel that make it easy to control colour brightness when converting…

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