![]() ![]() When you capture a scene from which you would like to produce a monochrome image, it can be helpful to put your camera into a “black & white” creative mode. If the image was taken using an achromatic camera, the image will be automatically flagged as monochrome. When importing an image, there are a number of properties that can be used to indicate that the image requires a monochrome treatment: □importing and flagging images as monochrome ![]() These approaches, and other monochrome-related features in darktable, are discussed in the following sections. There are two main approaches to this conversion:Ī physical approach, where we attempt to simulate how a silver-based photographic film emulsion would react to the light captured at the scene.Ī perceptual approach, where we develop a color image and reduce the color saturation in a perceptual color space such as CIE Lab. While there are some specialized/modified cameras with a truly monochrome sensor, most still use a regular camera to capture a color image and transform it into a monochrome image during post-processing. But what if you mixed that effect with filters that bring back detail? Wouldn’t they just cancel each other out? Turns out the answer is no.Photography has a long history of producing monochrome images, and many still enjoy this aspect of photography. That tends to reduce the detail and give photographs more of a glow. ![]() The Image Radiance and Orton Effect filters commonly work together to create very ethereal, fantasy like images. Take the eagle image, for example, it’s made up of the usual monochrome filters in Luminar, but then by experimenting with what I am calling the “Fearsome Foursome” I made an image I really like. Luminar is a great tool to enhance the colors in bird photography, but sometimes the b&w treatment works even better. But then I had the idea of mixing in some of the filters usually applied for details and drama together with the regular B&W tools and I had better success. I have been playing around with many of the filters commonly used to make B&W images and gotten great results. It’s one thing to simply convert a color image into a monochrome image. I used the following filters to get there: B&W Conversion, Advanced Contrast, Clarity, Tone, Top&Bottom Lighting, Dramatic, Details Enhancer. I wanted an Ansel Adams-like, high contrast image here since that is the sort of approach that suits this place in my opinion. This is a photo of Monument Valley, Utah. Once you have this conversion done you are of course free to add additional filters to make more creative decisions and I’ll spend the bulk of the rest of this post explaining how I approach that task. All those corrections are available in this standard monochrome workspace and every time it will deliver a basic, pleasing conversion even if you don’t touch a single slider. You can add detail in the entire image or just in the shadows or the highlights. You can also control overall contrast, highlights, shadows, etc. For this image, I used the Top & Bottom Lighting filter, then added some Details Enhancer and the Orton Effect. This truck almost looked like something I would shoot as an HDR image but I used the Top&Bottom lighting filter to manage the dynamic range before converting to monochrome. ![]() For instance, the Luminance sliders will adjust the brightness of each color as it is converted to monochrome. Scott BourneThis is a simple filter, but it has a variety of sliders that you can tweak if you know what you are looking for. I like the fact that unlike some of the basic tools in other image editing programs, the default corrections don’t end up throwing away a lot of data. If you use the B&W Conversion Filter in Luminar you are making the correction with the maximum amount of information in the image available. This filter does the heavy lifting in any good monochrome workflow in Luminar. The other a more artful and deliberate approach.įor those of you who don’t want to make major changes to your photos, but do want good looking monochrome images from color pictures, just open the default B&W workspace that ships with Luminar and your picture will instantly be transformed into a good, solid, monochrome image. I will discuss two basic monochrome workflows. The easiest is to simply start with the B&W Conversion filter which offers control over saturation, luminance and even offers color filters that work like the glass filters we used to put over our lenses when shooting with B&W film. There are many ways to use Luminar to convert your color image to monochrome. Whether your taste is for high contrast black and white, toned images or more ethereal surreal photos, Luminar can handle it. Whether your taste is for high contrast black and white, toned images or more ethereal surreal photos, Luminar can handle it. Skylum Luminar is not only a powerful but easy-to-use tool for color images, it can convert them into beautiful monochrome works of art. ![]()
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