How to Make an Emotive B&W with Lightroom CC | Adobe Creative Cloud

Change the mood of a photo with a B&W preset and a few quick adjustments.

Start from scratch, or download practice files [https://adobe.ly/2NPBIrc] for a head start. Steps below.

1. Open the photo provided (File – Add Photos), or try these steps with your own.
2. Click the Edit icon in the upper right.
3. Apply a preset: Click Presets from the bottom of the Edit panel. Open the B&W preset category, mouse over different presets to preview their effect, and choose the one you like. We chose “B&W High Contrast”.
4. Edit the default preset settings: Adjust edit sliders to refine the effect. We reduced the Exposure and increased the Clarity.
5. Apply selective edits: Choose the Radial Gradient, drag to create an oval over the model’s face, and check Invert so edits affect the area outside of the oval. Then adjust the appropriate sliders. We reduced the Exposure and Highlights to focus attention on the model’s face and darken the outlying areas.

Tip: The Radial Gradient sliders retain their positions from your last edit. To reset them, right-click one of the adjustment labels (e.g., Exposure) and choose Reset All sliders. Drag the handles to resize the oval. Hover just outside one of the handles and drag to rotate. Click the blue pin to make additional edits.

6. Erase selective edits: With the Radial Gradient still selected, choose the Eraser and brush over areas of the photo where you want to create an effect (such as how we created the appearance of light on some of the plants), or to remove unwanted adjustments.

That's it!

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