One of the few Tubetographers actually coming up with some original edit techniques that I haven't seen six thousand times before. Most of the time it's "drop the highlights, boost the shadows". Nice one.
I've been doing this a while by just pissing around. Something to add to this, Alt click when saving a preset and save it as a Profile. That way you can adjust the HSL even further, since it's still technically a colour image not BW. also, you would just have to add the clarity after but it's better that way since u can just add it on a mask
yes... the name of that preset is 100% accurate. I thought I would never nail the art of black&white editing. But with this... WOW. I guess I won't why away again if someone wants shots in b&w. Thanks so much for this!
I was about to start posting some black and white portraits tomorrow, did a re-edit and they look so much cleaner thanks to your instructions. Thanks a lot!
I'll give this a try. I have a similar technique which begins with desaturated each color as you showed, but then I adjust the luminance sliders for each color to achieve the desired look. Your technique which adds changing the color temp and tint looks interesting...I'll work it into my next conversion!
I thought this guy must be crazy when I first started watching the video! Nobody creates B&W by turning down saturation... But then I saw the results. Excellent. Now I'm trying to get my head around why it works so well. I'm pretty sure similar results could be obtained with more conventional techniques. But happy to be proved wrong.
Thank you for your video instruction. Tried it on some of my Raw photos. it works like a charm without any special effort to over editing and or guess editing. Just an advice for photos that are JPEGs or not exposed as they should/over saturation etc, one needs to remove any previous editing and than use this editing method for converting to B&W.
Thanks not just for the settings but also to encourage some bravery whilst crushing the blacks! I still use your other technique for desaturating and selectively adding back colour - really works well on some images and has actually rescued a couple that just were not working.
It’s always nice to see another way of converting to B/W. I’ll probably stick with my method, but I’m keeping your technique in my back pocket, just in case. Thanks for taking the time to share your process.
Perfect editing approach, Mark, and thanks a lot for sharing. Yes, that Tint slider is the key point how to adjust the natural tones on the photo, I usually get perfect results for portraits at the value -30
I think you are correct calling it perfect black and white ... i tried your setting on my colour image and your technique where for long time i was on search for my B&W images ... can you do some more please with Landscapes .... Thanks
Hi Mark, great new approach to B&W editing! I will definitively try it myself. Thanks for this fresh idea. The results you showed are really worth a try. Greetings from Vienna, Enver
Very interesting technique, had to watch twice. I re-edited a recent image and ... I think this is what I've been trying to achieve, but never quite got there. Thanks for posting! I'll have to let it stew for a few days. The only thing that bugs me is, I really don't understand how the settings produce the results, and the subsequent tweaking doesn't do what I expect (although that's just a learning curve). I understand applying, say, a "red filter" because it has a physical analogue, but this feels like uncharted territory. Can't argue with the result though!
Thanks for this. I've been using it as part of the toolset for a while now, saved as a preset to work as a starting point at least. I often don't use NIK as much as i used to. Two things though - I wish it was possible to find a way to get this less "green dependent" and use an alternative. Images with grass or green in get blown out in those areas. But, it's easy to forget that the image is still "in colour" so you have to be really careful if you use any of the other presets or AI presets like "enhance eyes" or "enhance clothing" etc. They push the saturation up and you get eyes with a green tint 😉
I did this and incorporated some other settings and made my own b&w preset. Since I have different subjects (flowers), I found using another luminescence color channel that fits for the subject works great.
Great. Really like your approach to editing. I always take bits and bobs from your editing style which has really made me become more versed and confident. Thank you.
Well done, Mark. I just found your channel and I love it. Like button clicked and subscribed. I will also save this video and once I get home (shhh I'm watching this whilst at work lol) and play around with some of my photos using this technique. Thank you.
Hi. Your method works well for that kind of images you show with blur and monotone portrait in moody dark backgrounds. For other kind of photography is not so handy. It would be great a video on black and white for something different to portraits. Regards
Thank you Mark, always learn something quick and fast with you, something that always improves my editing, my workflow and my general life 🎉 Thanks buddy. Owe you a drink.
This is cool. I really like BNW portraits and I've often been frustrated thinking I was seeing greys instead of blacks in my editing. I only have the free version of Capture One for editing right now. But, I should be able to make a similar edit there. Thanks for the tip!
great channel Mark. Love your approach - fast and yet clear, you touch on what you're doing with enough detail to allow the learner to grasp what you are doing - all in the service of making great images / art. See you're up in Scotland from time to time - I love Glencoe ('I'm from the west coast), tho living in Dundee, am appreciating the east coast light! Keep up the great work!
man your videos are so pure and awesome, you remind me of the vintage Peter McKinnon, which by the way I dont like what his channel has become. You always release awesome, unique and original stuff.
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your settings, now saved as a preset, & used on one image so far, and works great, shifting the green balance worked well for me. Just need more time to play properly. Need to try this on my IR images next and see if I can infuse this into some custom profiles I use for IR [for expanding 'temperature' range]!
One of the few Tubetographers actually coming up with some original edit techniques that I haven't seen six thousand times before. Most of the time it's "drop the highlights, boost the shadows". Nice one.
Thanks Andy.
I've been doing this a while by just pissing around. Something to add to this, Alt click when saving a preset and save it as a Profile. That way you can adjust the HSL even further, since it's still technically a colour image not BW. also, you would just have to add the clarity after but it's better that way since u can just add it on a mask
Mark, you've just changed my entire black/white editing game. Thanks so much!!
Great - glad to hear it!
Same here ha ha ha.
bro even added it as his pfp which means this video work
yes... the name of that preset is 100% accurate. I thought I would never nail the art of black&white editing. But with this... WOW. I guess I won't why away again if someone wants shots in b&w. Thanks so much for this!
I like the way you’re explaining this: focusing on subject’s details and our perceptions, not on tools👌
I was about to start posting some black and white portraits tomorrow, did a re-edit and they look so much cleaner thanks to your instructions. Thanks a lot!
Fantastic tutorial, Mark! Good on you for thinking out of the box
Just set up the preset according to your advice expecting a 'So what?' result.
It's so much better than any B&W preset I had. Thank you.
I'll give this a try. I have a similar technique which begins with desaturated each color as you showed, but then I adjust the luminance sliders for each color to achieve the desired look. Your technique which adds changing the color temp and tint looks interesting...I'll work it into my next conversion!
How did it go? Did you try it? What were the results?
I thought this guy must be crazy when I first started watching the video! Nobody creates B&W by turning down saturation... But then I saw the results. Excellent. Now I'm trying to get my head around why it works so well. I'm pretty sure similar results could be obtained with more conventional techniques. But happy to be proved wrong.
Thank you for your video instruction.
Tried it on some of my Raw photos. it works like a charm without any special effort to over editing and or guess editing.
Just an advice for photos that are JPEGs or not exposed as they should/over saturation etc, one needs to remove any previous editing and than use this editing method for converting to B&W.
This has made a big difference to the way I process my images.
Thanks not just for the settings but also to encourage some bravery whilst crushing the blacks! I still use your other technique for desaturating and selectively adding back colour - really works well on some images and has actually rescued a couple that just were not working.
Excellent! Thank you for sharing. I always struggle to convert my color shots to B&W to my satisfaction. This tutorial has been a big help.
Great to hear, Liam! Happy editing.
This is so cool! Love B&W Pictures but always struggled to prevent them from looking washed out - not with this method!
Excellent tutorial and technique. Thank you for sharing.
It’s always nice to see another way of converting to B/W. I’ll probably stick with my method, but I’m keeping your technique in my back pocket, just in case. Thanks for taking the time to share your process.
Perfect editing approach, Mark, and thanks a lot for sharing.
Yes, that Tint slider is the key point how to adjust the natural tones on the photo, I usually get perfect results for portraits at the value -30
That is a great tutorial on black and white. Greatful to you
All this in 6 minutes. Really great. Thank you.
I think you are correct calling it perfect black and white ... i tried your setting on my colour image and your technique where for long time i was on search for my B&W images ... can you do some more please with Landscapes .... Thanks
Our imagination fills in the gaps in black and white photography. That tenet says it all.
Brilliant technique Mark and will defiantly be using regularly.
Hi Mark, great new approach to B&W editing! I will definitively try it myself. Thanks for this fresh idea. The results you showed are really worth a try. Greetings from Vienna, Enver
Cheers mate, simply said and done, no rambling, love it, thx🙏
Thanks for this great lesson!
Bravo from Montréal, Canada! 📸❤️👍
Great job Mark to find and develop this approach and share it with the rest of us! Very helpful. Thank you!
Very interesting technique, had to watch twice. I re-edited a recent image and ... I think this is what I've been trying to achieve, but never quite got there. Thanks for posting! I'll have to let it stew for a few days. The only thing that bugs me is, I really don't understand how the settings produce the results, and the subsequent tweaking doesn't do what I expect (although that's just a learning curve). I understand applying, say, a "red filter" because it has a physical analogue, but this feels like uncharted territory. Can't argue with the result though!
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I would love to have that preset you created Sir. That’s how I like my B&W’s to look
Great educational channel. Love some of your editing techniques
Thanks David
Wow! this is really good. I'm in deep shock...this tutorial changed my b&w photography :) thank you..
THANK YOU ! This is EXACTLY what color scheme i'm searching for years !
Thanks for this. I've been using it as part of the toolset for a while now, saved as a preset to work as a starting point at least. I often don't use NIK as much as i used to. Two things though - I wish it was possible to find a way to get this less "green dependent" and use an alternative. Images with grass or green in get blown out in those areas. But, it's easy to forget that the image is still "in colour" so you have to be really careful if you use any of the other presets or AI presets like "enhance eyes" or "enhance clothing" etc. They push the saturation up and you get eyes with a green tint 😉
Thank you!! All the best from Norway!
I have just come across your channel and tried the settings …. Brilliant and thank you for sharing 👍
Just like your other video on editing in colour using B&W this is brilliant!! I am trying it out as we speak...
Outstanding! Thanks for sharing.
Perfect.... thank you. It's nice to get a different option for presets. It looks great 👍
Hi Mark, thank you for this, it completely change the game !
Super interesting technique, thanks.
Can't wait to try this and if it works well for me, I'll be using it for sure to convert my images to B&W
Hope it goes well for you!
Fantastic, thanks for this video and technique!
I did this while also pulling down the blacks on the tone curve.
Im looking to improve my editing tecnique for my b/w photos, so this came in quite handy! Thnx!
Great video! Quick and to the point, no annoying filler. You've got a new sub
Amazing tutorial thank you so much.
Thanks a lot for sharing this technique!
The best BnW editing I have seen today! Thanks. Will use it right now !! Another Subscriber :))
Thanks Mark - and Welcome! Hope you get some great results with this.
Bravo!!! I love this tip!
Glad it was helpful!
I am loving these Lightroom videos--keep it up!
Genius...I always use this preset,it looks fabulous especially with portraits
This is actually a really awesome trick!
Excellent. Shall try it out
I did this and incorporated some other settings and made my own b&w preset. Since I have different subjects (flowers), I found using another luminescence color channel that fits for the subject works great.
Hey bro, do you post your B&W flower pics anywhere? I'd love to see them
Sort to the newest photos. The newest B&W photos is done with your lightroom tips.
Very clever, I can’t say I’ve ever used this technique. Going to have some fun playing around with your method. Thanks for sharing 👌🏻👊🏻
GREAT. Simply. Thanks - been searching for something like this👍
Game changer! Thanks mark for sharing. New subscriber
This is wild! Awesome technique and incredible results!
Really impressive and unusual. Loved it. Thanks.
Great. Really like your approach to editing. I always take bits and bobs from your editing style which has really made me become more versed and confident. Thank you.
Well done, Mark. I just found your channel and I love it. Like button clicked and subscribed.
I will also save this video and once I get home (shhh I'm watching this whilst at work lol) and play around with some of my photos using this technique. Thank you.
Excelant tutorial. Thank you
Useful technique
Very Nice!! Thank you! Just the video I needed to see!
Already tried it - looks fantastic! Thank you so much)
Thank you very much! Fantastic!! 🤩🙏
This is a great video. Thank you for sharing
wow Mark. I learned so much from this video. So now you are my new nr one to follow
really nice solution!
Glad you like it!
Hi. Your method works well for that kind of images you show with blur and monotone portrait in moody dark backgrounds. For other kind of photography is not so handy. It would be great a video on black and white for something different to portraits.
Regards
I love making B&W photos, but never thought about doing it this way. Thanks for the advise :)
Thank you Mark, always learn something quick and fast with you, something that always improves my editing, my workflow and my general life 🎉
Thanks buddy. Owe you a drink.
Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing !
Great! I'm so bad at anything B&W. I've got so many pics I want to try this on. Thanks!
excellent tips! thanks for this
I established a technique very similar to this myself, and it's great to see it confirmed.
My man, I am just floored. You made my day and beyond.
So glad I found your page! Your videos are so helpful!
This is cool. I really like BNW portraits and I've often been frustrated thinking I was seeing greys instead of blacks in my editing. I only have the free version of Capture One for editing right now. But, I should be able to make a similar edit there. Thanks for the tip!
Pleasure Charlie. Happy editing.
That’s amazing Mark, thank you very much☺️
Genius, thank you so much!!!😁
That’s incredible.
Would you happen to have the preset so I can download it and play with it?
Wow bro you're awesome. Thankyou
Thank you for watching!
This is going to be real step forward for my Black and White images! Big thanks!
it worked! thank you so much!!
great channel Mark. Love your approach - fast and yet clear, you touch on what you're doing with enough detail to allow the learner to grasp what you are doing - all in the service of making great images / art.
See you're up in Scotland from time to time - I love Glencoe ('I'm from the west coast), tho living in Dundee, am appreciating the east coast light!
Keep up the great work!
Thanks Joe, appreciate that!
wow - nice! I will give it a try!
I did, it worked!!! 😀
Awesome tip!!
man your videos are so pure and awesome, you remind me of the vintage Peter McKinnon, which by the way I dont like what his channel has become. You always release awesome, unique and original stuff.
Thanks for watching, Jaime!
excellent job Mark
Love your set. Good lighting and color grading as well.
thankyou for sharing sir! understandable tips 📝
Game changer....thank you so much!
Great Video! Thanks
You're welcome!
Thank you, greatly appreciated.
Never tried this. Great video. Thanks.
Thanks for some great ideas 💡 📷💜
effin amazing!!!
Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your settings, now saved as a preset, & used on one image so far, and works great, shifting the green balance worked well for me. Just need more time to play properly. Need to try this on my IR images next and see if I can infuse this into some custom profiles I use for IR [for expanding 'temperature' range]!