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Colour grading black & white images in Lightroom is apparently a thing – Here’s how to do it

This kind of struck me as a little bit weird at first. Mostly because it was something Iā€™d never even considered. Toning, sure, but split toning the shadows and highlights separately on a black and white image that doesnā€™t actually have any native colour whatsoever? Yeah, kinda weird. But the more I watched this video from photographer Anthony Morganti, the more it intrigued me.

Itā€™s an interesting idea, to add colour to a black & white image ā€“ and not in the colourising sense, but doing the same kind of shadow and highlight tints we might typically do to a colour image or video sequence. For stills, though, in Lightroom, itā€™s pretty easy to do, too.

In the 8-minute video, Anthony goes over the process multiple times. Itā€™s not that itā€™s a difficult or complex process (it only really takes advantage of Lightroomā€™s ā€œColor Gradingā€ tab), just that thereā€™s a lot to colour theory and figuring out what goes with what. So, Anthony uses different image examples to talk through complementary colours, triad colours and analogous colours.

Iā€™m not sure itā€™s a technique Iā€™d want to employ often in my own imagery ā€“ at least not for black & whites ā€“ but it is a pretty interesting technique that can add new dimension to your otherwise mono shots.

Is this a technique you use with your black & whites?



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