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Adobe Lightroom - Using the Grayscale Mixer to
turn a red & white striped lighthouse black & white
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A
very simple example of how the Grayscale Mixer can help you
get better results from your color to grayscale conversions.
If you look at your father's (or more likely grandfather's)
camera outfit you will find that he had a lot of colored filters
for shooting black and white film, these filters where used
to darken and lighten certain colors in a scene. Adobe has
taken the same approach in the Lightroom Grayscale Mixer toolbox.
Slide a color to darker or lighter and the corresponding color
will be lighter or darker in the grayscale image.
The
full color original phot of the Quoddy West Lighthouse in
Lubec, Maine, it is the furthest east lighthouse on the US
coast. The Quoddy East Lighthouse stands across the bay on
the Canadian island of Campobello (once the summer home of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt).
An
automatic grayscale conversion without adjusting any of the
color sliders. The red stripes are almost as black as the
base of the light (which is black).
In
this image the red slider has been adjusted from the default
numerical value of 34 to 83 to lighten the red stripes and
red roof of the lighthouse and lighthouse keeper's house.
The lighthouse has also been straightened slightly using the
Crop & Straighten tool.
P.S.:
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in this article...... George
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