Kept Light

I have been using Adobe Lightroom since it became available as public beta for Windows. It is a great front-end for Photoshop and much of the work can be done in Lightroom. I like that, the interface is more intuitive and controls more visible. One of the steps I started doing in Lightroom when it appeared on my desktop was B&W conversion, but I soon discovered that its built in tool for this purpose was not to my liking. So, I tried to mimic what I had been doing in Photoshop: Use a Hue & Saturation adjustment layer to desaturate and a Selective Color adjustment layer under that to control the values in each of the channels. Of course, this method has some other details that I am skipping here as it is not about doing this in Photoshop. You can find more about this elsewhere in this blog. [Read more...]