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Black and White Presets
These presets mimic Black and White film effects.
Click the Lightroom icon to Download the Presets, they are zipped for easy transfer. Previews are shown to see the range of effects, but bear in mind that they are a starting point for your own investigations!
To install these presets, use this guide.
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Dreamy Infrared Preset
Author: Richard Earney
Description: Dreamy IR Presets using Negative Clarity and White Balance along with some toning to create a better diffused IR look.
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Black and White RAW Effects
Author: Patrick Lavoie
Description: A set of everyday black and white effects. Ideal for RAW files.
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Black and White Everyday Effects
Author: Patrick Lavoie
Description: A set of everyday black and white effects. Ideal for JPG files.
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Black and White Filters
Author: Simon Pride
Description: Simon recreated the ‘classic’ black-and-white filters that are also available in Photoshop CS3. I remapped the CS3 color mixer settings into Lightroom’s scales. These have been done numerically rather than optically so are a starting point.
Basic B+W with Contrast
Author: Ed Perchick
Description: Useful for Paler Skin
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Desaturated Red Contrast
Author: Ed Perchick
Description: Similar to Martin Evening’s (below) but lower red saturation aimed at Caucasiain Skin tones
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Desaturated HSL Red Contrast
Author: Martin Evening
Description: Black and White created by desaturating in the HSL panel, emphasising Red Contrast
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Colour Negative
Author: John Beardsworth
Description: A Solarize point curve translation using ACR 4 as discovered by John Beardsworth.
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InfraRed
Author: Richard Earney
Description: An attempt to produce an InfraRed style
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InfraRed
Author: Martin Evening
Description: Black and White Infrared
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Black and White: Green Filter
Author: Black Bird Blue
Description: It emphasises and softens skin textures.
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Black and White: Red Filter
Author: Black Bird Blue
Description: It emphasises and softens skin textures.
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Soft Black and White
Author: MSL Designs
Description: A soft black and white affect
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Old Black and White
Author: Andreas Norén
Description: Designed to mimic old style Black and White Photographs
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Old Black and White 2
Author: Daniel Patin
Description: Based on “Old Black and White” from Andreas Norén
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Old Black and White 3
Author: Daniel Patin
Description: Based on “Old Black and White” from Andreas Norén
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Black and White Hard Contrast
Author: Richard Earney
Description: Contrasty Black and White, harder grade paper.
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