Creating Black-and-White Landscape Photos with Lightroom Classic CC

Learn the best techniques for creating stunning, high-contrast black-and-white landscape photos in Lightroom Classic CC.

Learn the best techniques for creating stunning black-and-white landscape photos in Lightroom Classic CC. Taz Tally takes some of his own full-color photographs, shot in the dramatic Alaskan wilderness, and shows how to transform them into high-contrast black and white images. He introduces the fundamental concepts, tools, and workflows you'll need to use to master the conversion process, and shows how to use Lightroom Classic CC's Histogram and Info tools to understand what's going on "behind the scenes" of your images. Then Taz introduces some advanced color- and tone-based adjustments for enhancing brightness and contrast. Last but not least, he shares tips on sharpening, sharing, and printing your results.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Using the challenges

1. Black-and-White Fundamentals

• From color to black-and-white: a workflow overview
• Understanding how channels make up an image
• Essential tools: The Histogram and Info tools
• Examples of before and after conversions

2. Basic Black-and-White Techniques

• Evaluating and measuring brightness and contrast
• Measuring and adjusting highlight and shadow values
• Fine-tuning brightness and contrast
• Convenient Develop module shortcuts for adjusting images
• Challenge: Perform a basic black-and-white conversion
• Challenge solution

3. Advanced Tone-Based Adjustments

• Improving the contrast
• Fine-tuning highlights and shadows numerically
• Fine-tuning the contrast
• Enhancing specific areas to improve contrast
• Challenge: Perform a tone-based conversion
• Challenge solution

4. Advanced Color-Based Adjustments

• Evaluating the photo and making an initial conversion
• Setting highlights and shadows and overall tone distribution
• Making color-specific tone adjustments
• Making mask-based tone adjustments
• Fine-tuning contrast using the Tone Curve panel
• Challenge: Perform a color-based conversion
• Challenge solution

5. After the Conversion: Sharpening, Sharing, and Printing

• Sharpening a photo using the Detail panel
• Image resolution considerations
• Best practices for exporting and printing black-and-white landscapes

Conclusion

• Next steps