Craft Great B & W Photos in Adobe Lightroom & ACR - A Graphic Design for LunchTM Class

Learn to create stunning black and white images with Graphic Design for Lunch™! This series of short, focused video courses is designed for busy creatives – perfect for learning in bite-sized pieces, even during your lunch break.

In this course, you'll master the art of crafting compelling black and white photography using the powerful tools within Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). Discover techniques to beautifully protect skin tones when converting images to monochrome, ensuring natural and realistic results.

Downloadable raw images are provided for personal practice. I'll demonstrate the processing workflow in both Lightroom and ACR – though the core develop tools are remarkably similar between the two applications, allowing you to choose the one you prefer. You'll see a side-by-side before and after comparison to clearly understand the impact of your edits.

This course is just one part of a comprehensive series covering a wide range of Lightroom and ACR techniques, including:

• Mood & Light in Evening Photos: Enhance your evening photography with creative adjustments.
• Creative Photo Relighting: Transform photos with advanced relighting techniques.
• Batch Processing: Efficiently process large photo shoots.
• Calendar Creation: Design professional-looking calendars using Lightroom & Photoshop.
• Preset Creation & Usage: Learn to create and utilize custom presets for consistent results.
• Spot Removal: Remove blemishes, sensor dust, and other imperfections.
• Day to Night Processing: Master the art of converting daytime photos to stunning nighttime scenes.
• Color Enhancement: Learn to enhance existing colors in your images.
• Red Enhancement: Specifically boost the red tones in your photos.
• Preset Management: Find, download, and install Lightroom presets.
• Perspective Correction: Fix perspective and lens distortion.
• Isolated Color Effects: Create unique and eye-catching color effects.
• Image Keywording: Organize your images effectively using Lightroom and Bridge.
• Lightroom Overview: Determine if Lightroom is the right photo editing software for you.
• Printing Techniques: Master printing and create beautiful triptychs.
• Clarity Adjustments: Get creative with Clarity settings in Lightroom & ACR.
• Underexposed Image Recovery: Process and recover underexposed images.
• Roundtrip Editing with Photoshop: Seamlessly integrate Lightroom and Photoshop.
• Sharpening Techniques: Sharpen and spot-sharpen photos for optimal detail.
• Silhouette Processing: Create striking silhouette images.
• Hand Tint Effects: Apply unique hand-tinted image effects.
• High Key Processing: Achieve a bright and airy aesthetic.
• Frame Photos on Export: Add frames to your exported images.
• Photo Selection: Learn to choose your best photos in Lightroom.