And you don’t need to use any 3rd party plugins or software – although Silver Efex Pro is still a lot of fun and can produce great results. While I still occasionally grab the F100 and a roll of Ilford FP4+ to shoot black and whites, this is a great workflow for creating detailed and dramatic digital black and white conversions from colour raw files. I use Adobe Camera RAW and Photoshop, but a lot of the principles are still the same, which is essentially using colour to give you more control over the black & white conversion process. performed using NIK HDR Efex Pro 2 and Adobe Lightroom 5.3. Figure 5.3 The Auto Tone settings in Lightroom. grounds of historic Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California in this 6-image HDR shot. 3:38 – Convert to black & white and reduce exposureĪs my attitude towards digital black and whites has changed over the years, so has my approach to converting them and it’s actually quite similar to Pye’s process here in Lightroom. Your separate exposures are sent to Lightroom's HDR Merge function.Here’s the timestamps for each step in the process. See, I told you it was a little counterintuitive. The second step enhances this effect to make the detail and contrast differences even more obvious. Finesse the details, and make selective adjustments.

EDIT PHOTOS - ACHIEVE YOUR CREATIVE VISION The world’s best photo-editing tools give you ultimate control. It empowers you to capture and edit stunning images. This is mostly due to the fact that the white balance and tint settings can hide contrast and detail that you really want to bring out – particularly in areas of brightness. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a free, yet powerful photo editor and camera app. The method for launching Aurora HDR at the start is different, but the outcome is the same. And, perhaps most oddly at all is that the process starts off by working in colour. Aurora HDR 2019 processes the image and saves it back to Lightroom alongside the bracketed exposures use to create it. The process is quite straightforward if perhaps a little counterintuitive at times.

Hdr in lightroom 5.3