Black & White Done Right: A Lightroom Classic Workflow That Actually Makes You Think in Monochrome

Black & White Done Right: A Lightroom Classic Workflow That Actually Makes You Think in Monochrome

Most of my black and white conversions used to follow the same lazy pattern: desaturate, push the contrast, call it done. They looked fine. Fine is the enemy of interesting. What I was missing wasn’t effort, it was a smarter starting point, specifically, using Lightroom’s B&W creative profiles as a foundation rather than an afterthought. Watch the full tutorial on YouTube In this Scott Kelby tutorial, he works through a Venice street scene that, by his own admission, isn’t a trophy shot.