How to Edit Amazing Black & White Portraits in Lightroom!

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Hey everyone! In today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to take a boring black and white photo and edit it in Lightroom to make it dramatic and cinematic. This is a super simple tutorial perfect for beginners or anyone looking to change up their black and white style!
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22 сен 2024

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@DarianGTR06 6 лет назад

This is the first B&W tutorial for portraits that where I actually like the result. Great work.

@TWINCOAST 6 лет назад

Ok im sooo stoked about this!!! i recently have became so obssesed with black and white photography!

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Yay thanks!!

@marksnellingphotography 6 лет назад

"up the side of the panel thing" love it.. Nice work Julia.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Hahaha the name escaped me!

@hardene8888 6 лет назад

B&W is never boring! This is so great! Thanks for doing the video.

@nathanbryant1134 6 лет назад

The RAW alone looks great. So clean. The final edit was really really good.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thanks so much! :)

@RaleyWeGrind 5 лет назад

Definitely going to try this

@hurleygreen927 Год назад

Appreciate the tips...I also love B/W portraits, it takes us back to the old school style of photography images! Thanks for this video...

@humansarestardust Год назад

Thank you Julia !

@Ultrarmx 6 лет назад

WOW! U made the only video on RU-vid with great detail on B&W photos. 👍🏼 Ty so much.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you so much :D

@emilypeloquin4408 6 лет назад

Wow! That really CAN change a B&W picture! Amazing tutoriel! I don’t know if you already did a video about it, but I would really like to see a tutorial on which angles are the best to shoot a model, and how to achieve those! Thanks ❤️

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!! So glad you liked it :) And yes, I would love to make a video about that, thank you for the suggestion!

@emilypeloquin4408 6 лет назад

Julia Trotti Thanks for replying 😍 I rediscovered my love for photography a few months ago and u are a HUGE inspiration xxxx

@BrewCityflash33 6 лет назад

Love your work just found you today and watched 4 videos back to back keep up the great work 😉

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Ahh thank you! That makes me so happy to hear 💛

@mathildeleitek 6 лет назад

Your tutorials are the best!!

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@DeltaCharlie27 6 лет назад

B&W isn't necessarily boring, but can be timeless!

@Apolbis 6 лет назад

I've spent 4 hrs watching your tutorials. I'm so in love! Thanks for putting so much care and dedication into your videos. Tomorrow I'll go shoot my very first family session and a fashion/individual shoot. I feel a lot more confident now! Greetings from Missouri USA

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Ahh you are amazing, thank you! And I hope your shoot went really well 😊

@Apolbis 6 лет назад

Julia Trotti you've helped me so much! Boosted my confidence as a photographer that I've always wanted to be. I'm making it work with the equipment that I have but it's all working out just fine. A not so fancy camera Nikon D3100 and 50mm 1.8 and a not so color-balanced computer monitor lol - it'll all come full circle once I start investing in upgrades. But thank you from the bottom of my heart because you taught me the basics on manual settings, life changing! I'll display some of my work in my ig if you ever want to take a peek @piconsita Thanks again, you're my favorite RU-vidr as of now ❤️

@nickhills8061 6 лет назад

Awesome Julia, well done again!

@jaycole1900 Год назад

beautiful

@Star.and.Moon_Studio 6 лет назад

This is awesome! I've been using a preset for my b&w but have been wanting to come up with my own black and white styling. Thanks for the tips.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@JohmathanBSwift 6 лет назад

Excellent capture . Great tutorial . Best weekend to ya

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@neilf368 4 года назад

Pretty cool, liked the video. Hint: press 'Y' to show before and after.

@veselinvasilev9362 4 года назад

Thank You!

@Asty__ 6 лет назад

Awesome tips and video quality. Very professional! Keep up the good work, Julia

@TheColbyLife1 4 года назад

Thank you so much!!

@faustomor4299 4 года назад

Great. Thank's

@mat5901 6 лет назад

Really nice Julia

@DrakeAlexanderKnight 6 лет назад

Absolutely loving and learning a wealth of info from your videos, you've got my sub

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you so much!

@36sudip 6 лет назад

I love editing portraits in B&W. Just couple of weeks back I had tried the tone curve to add drama to my B&W portraits. But the one you demonstrated here is just stunning and very easy to follow. Thanks! :)

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you so much :D

@elcaminodereal4534 6 лет назад

Marvelous

@mhamad4629 6 лет назад

Another great tutorial. Have a nice day!!

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@arbull7264 6 лет назад

nice, really nice. will try some of that later.

@marteung 6 лет назад

Thank you again! I am generally not a big fan of B&W, but I definitely love the result!

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!

@rynsouaidi 6 лет назад

Love it

@cazzabubboleXXX 6 лет назад

Just amazing video! Really appreciate it :)

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you 😊

@theyellowchucks 6 лет назад

Looks so good! 😀😀👌🏼

@teocrawford 6 лет назад

thanks for the tips! I'm just getting into some B&Ws so this is the perfect video for me right now :P

@dezzymeriei 6 лет назад

I love all of your vids

@christhepharmacist 6 лет назад

Thank you, learnt loads agian 👍

@Cre8tiveWoman 6 лет назад

Awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@amielaicart866 6 лет назад

You're such a amazing teacher hahah

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!!

@Ranblv 6 лет назад

Great edit.

@tammymartin621 3 года назад

I like watching ur viedos so much...wish I cld meet you..4mth lightroom user in Florida

@JulesFredericNerestant 6 лет назад

Keep up the awesome work its super insiring :)

@addyrodes9142 3 года назад

This is so helpful! I’ve been struggling with black and white cause I put it in black and white and then don’t know what to do next 😂

@nikhilchandra496 6 лет назад

Wow.. this was amazing ... love ur tutorials ❤ ! Just a beginner photographer here .. learning my way and these r really helpful 😊

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you so much :)

@saracristina2147 6 лет назад

Love this ♥

@ms.andreeam 6 лет назад

I love your tutorials

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you!!

@TheThirdErnest 6 лет назад

Love it Julia! I’m about to buy a new body and trying to decide between 24 and 42 mp. Do you ever find yourself wishing your mark3 had more mp for post? Or does 24 work great for your fashion and vacay work??

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

I've never had the need for more MP in my camera - and my photos have been printed out poster-sized before :) Keep in mind that sometimes the more MP a camera has, the noisier it is in low light!

@AdamWaliczek 6 лет назад

Thank You for very useful tutorial.

@ManishKumarr 6 лет назад

Great as always. Can you pls do a video on editing wedding theme pics especially with one dominant color. Tx

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you! And yes! I am definitely planning on doing some wedding editing tutorials :)

@alirany 6 лет назад

The original photo was already quite flat and when you flattened it further using curve I though you ruined the whole picture. But the final result is amazing. It would be great to compare it with a regular S curve though. I think the real magic in your workflow is the B&W color sliders.

@raquelra5878 6 лет назад

Thank You so much!,,

@ktwo08 6 лет назад

Julia, your videos are so inspirational & helpful. Purchased 3 of your presets and ugh... so beautiful! ❤️ Question: does your WB change for every shoot or do you have a standard/go-to setting? I want to shoot w/ a WB setting that makes it easier for editing. Thanks in advance! Looking forward to the next one, as always.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you! I'm so glad you love them 💛 I personally like to keep my white balance at 5200K throughout the entire shoot so every image is the same. The only time I change it is if I am in extreme lighting conditions - such as indoors where I'll bring the WB down to suit the lighting or if I am shooting outdoors during dusk where it gets really blue! If you are shooting in RAW, the WB isn't the most important thing to change, so you could always just keep it at 5200K and change it in Lightroom afterwards :)

@annamariliabuarque2371 6 лет назад

great tips, thank you!! i have a question... what's the effect of changing the radius on the sharpening? i've always wanted to know and I feel like I only change it just for the sake of it, not really seeing much of a difference

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you! Changing the radius alters what part of the image is being sharpened. So when you hold down alt/option and bring the radius up, the white parts of the image are what are being sharpened. I personally like to sharpen my image everywhere (including the background) but sometimes it can come in handy when you only want to sharpen your subject!

@lindseyford9913 6 лет назад

I am not sure if you have done a video on this before but a video on how to shoot backlit with the sun coming through on the model or couple. (like this one is) I seem to be struggling with getting my settings right to make it look good in post. Sometimes the sun takes over the picture and sometimes it is just blown out in the back :( #struggleisreal

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

I do have one video where I talk about sunset portrait photography a little: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UDgmMZ9xSaA.html the audio is a bit messed up in it though :( So I would really love to make another one! My background is a little blown out in this photo as well, I just try to underexpose my subject a bit so I can save as much of the background as possible.

@aa-vr8li 4 года назад

How can i keep the lips red after i turned the photo to B/W? I treid to bring all the colors down except the red but it had also made the face red on some parts

@iaindonald7868 6 лет назад

Honestly, it looked like you were undoing some of the things. For example, you put contrast up and started crushing shadows in the face/hair. Then put shadows up to bring detail back out, then pulled blacks down and started crushing them again. Felt a bit aimless. Sorry if that sounds harsh, just what I saw.

@chamamwanga144 6 лет назад

Hey thanks for the video. Quick question. If I wanted to keep the whole image black and white and just colour the flowers. How would I go about it

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thanks! I would go to HSL and bring down the saturation to -100 for every colour except for the ones that are affecting the flowers. If there is still colour in your image after that, then just use an adjustment brush to desaturate the rest of the photo you want to be black and white :)

@ayurtsybenov 6 лет назад

Love from Russia

@cuongdvu9612 6 лет назад

👌

@arbull7264 6 лет назад

nice

@Traveljournalist 6 лет назад

+1 like . thanks!

@appdata007 6 лет назад

Want to ask something not related to this Julia...if suppose I subscribe to Lightroom /premier pro and after just one month I wanted to discontinue and won't pay for next month..will it be ok or adobe would charge fine if I subscribe again...just clarify if u know.... Thanks for the vdo ... always inspired

@joshuaprufer6305 6 лет назад

you can only subscribe for a yearly sub! You must pay every month, 12 months.

@appdata007 6 лет назад

Thabks for the reply ...That's what I am asking...if I don't pay after one month..what will happen...do explain please ☺

@joshuaprufer6305 6 лет назад

App Data They will charge your bank account or PayPal. If you tell your PayPal or your bank not to do it they will probably ban your IP and you will never be allowed to use Creative Cloud services anymore.

@arbull7264 6 лет назад

now I would like to see you edit a B&W photograph....not from color to B&W. O photo that was shot in B&W and needs some touch up

@KazuyaMASUDA1982 6 лет назад

👍

@LightThatGodSends 6 лет назад

Forgive me, but why can't I move the shadow and Highlight sliders levels to where I want to start like you can. help they seem o be locked in the top and bottom corners only.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Change your tone curve to Linear and you will be able to move them around :)

@markharris5771 6 лет назад

I think you are one of the best natural light portrait photographers I’ve seen, you have a phenomenal talent...but, I’m really sorry, I prefer film for black and white images. I know I’m most likely in a very tiny minority and I'm going to get slaughtered for saying it. But it’s a great image and a brilliant tutorial for the billions of people who probably disagree with me.

@juliatrotti 6 лет назад

Thank you! And that's okay, we all have our own preferences! I love film black and white as well - there is no equivalent. But when I am shooting for a client (such as the photo from this shoot), I don't really have time to pull out a film camera to be able to capture some specific black and white shots, so I lean on Lightroom to be able to do that instead. I would love to be able to do that on a personal shoot sometime though, perhaps I should!