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Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps

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Converting to black and white and color toning with Gradient Maps

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- [Instructor] While you can convert your images to black and white and add color tints using Camera Raw or Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, you can also use adjustment layers in Photoshop, and then customize that conversion by changing the opacity or the blend mode, or even using the adjustment layers mask. Let's take a moment and look at the black and white adjustment layer in order to customize our conversion from color to black and white, and then we'll use the gradient map as another way to add a color-toning effect. So from the bottom of the layers panel, I'll use the adjustment layer icon, and we'll choose black and white. In the properties panel, we can see we have a number of different color ranges. All of them have sliders, and if I move them to the left, it will darken the color range as it's converted to gray scale. If I move it to the right, it will lighten it. I can also apply an auto…

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