Boost black & whites

Do your black & white images lack punch? Learn how to take them from flat to fine-art in five minutes using Adobe Lightroom 6

PRocessing bLAck & white images is a completely different ball game to working with colour. in fact, take the rule book and fling it out the window with vigour! Forget treading softly and making minute modifications – black & white images, by nature, don’t reflect reality so you can afford to take a little more artistic licence when processing them. Adding contrast in abundance, lifting colour luminance, amplified dodging and burning and increasing clarity all sounds like an eyewatering recipe for disaster if you were working in colour, but in monochrome it’s a sure way to add impact. Push the boundaries of a colour image too far and telltale signs of overprocessing appear. in this sense, monochrome is much more forgiving. here are a few easy-to-follow steps to give your…

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