How to Edit a Black & White Portrait in Lightroom

Thanks for the video guys! Always super helpful.

Sidenote: This is one of those instances where the Chelsea's beauty surpasses the model's. And that's a very pretty model.

Nice Chelsea,I always learn something from your portrait series of tutorials.

5:06 holy sharpness.. was this taken with the 5dr??

I'm thinking there is something going on with these black and white photos… You'll notice on the last episode Tony's shirt looked strikingly like a checkerboard floor. This is because it's a metaphysical alchemical idea about light and dark fused together. If you notice Tony will sometimes wear a Jersey with the number…33… This is to signal to the other photoillumanti his true identity. You'll notice his name, Tony Northup is to symbolize 11, or 46 and 2, calling for the last king of the North to attack the last king of the South and lead a world Army with the Persians. Tony on the last episode said the words, "Make sure you're looking with your minds eye," implying his third eye, the eye of Ra, the eye of Horus. I would not be surprised if Tony was to introduce a, "photo walk," into Cern Switzerland at the LHC around September 25th. This is because he's wanting to get 4k video of Apollyon himself coming out of the pit. Tony is offering video books for the low price of 9.99, if you flip it upside down, 666. WORLDWIDE shipping he says, this a cryptic announcement to the birthing of the new world order.

Thanks beautiful lady, I'll give it a try. Nice effect. Big thumbs up…

great vid as always. Tutorial suggestion: a video on how to use capture one from scratch for lightroom users so we can utilize the benefits of both software.

Short and sweet. Love how quickly and effectively you worked through those touches.

white ballance correction tutorial or lightroom 101 for dummies like me?

how you get so much details in photo ,what lens you used & i have 18-200mm tamron can i get the same result ?

Interesting trick to squint to see the highlights, haven´t heard of that one before.

Can I ask what the pad ( sorry, don't know what is called, the thing you use instead of the mouse) that you use for this videos?

Very informative and useful.

Nice job Chelsea.

can you guys do a tutorial on white balance correction in lightroom for different shooting situations?

Shoot Tri-X :). Just fooling. Great video, good info. No…really…shoot Tri-X.

Very nice video. So basically it comes down to having some artistic drawing/painting skills.

I just wanted to say how satisfied I am with the Lightroom book that I purchased the quality of the book was apparent and the information very well written. Cheers to you both and good job on the videos.

Thank you!! Always great tutorials!!

I just keep pausing on the model…exotic beauty.

Hi Chelsea!

That was really good. I have light room 5 and use it often, but never used the brush. ..dah. I will be putting it to use because I do like the b&w look. nice job! I have your book and it's very informative. thanks.

love the squinting method, im now using it on all aspects of my photography. lol

Which tablet are you using to edit? Wacom?

Jacket indoor. You really like Matt Granger, ay!

Chelsea when setting the white & black points at around 0:56 did you know that you can hold the shift key and double click on the word "whites" or "blacks" and Lightroom CC 2015 will set the white/black points automatically? I find it works quite well, after using auto white/black point you can compare the two methods by holding the alt key and clicking the slider. Both methods move the slider to very nearly the same place, but one is faster the other provides more control. As with any auto setting it does not work on every image but gives good results most of the time. Just another tool in the tool box you can make use of the one that best suits you needs.

Hi, do you have any video where you go into more details on how to use lightroom?

Hello…. What tablet are you guys using to work with lightroom..??

thank you!!!!

Merci beaucoup pour ce tuto, cela a changer mes photos en noir et blanc. J'ai maintenant un rendu beaucoup plus professionnel. Si vous avez le meme tuto mais pour les portrait couleur, je suis preneur.Guy from Guadeloupe, french west indie.

Nice edit 🙂 I love photoshop and don't use Lightroom much, this makes me want to dabble a bit. Maybe a future tutorial of mine will be LR

Nice job, Bravo..

the model so pretty

Thanks… Can you show before and after next time 'y'…

thank you I have been editing for a long while and I still pulled some tips from this

You are awesome!

That girl is just flawless.

Excellent tips, thanks!

Whoa that squinting trick really helps! I can usually see where the highlights and shadows originate but that makes it so much easier!

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Oh, how I wish you would have shown the before and after. 🙁

short and sweet!

Thank you so much! I have watched other videos that usually don't translate to ALL b&w photos. The "contouring" really has upped all my black and white photos

These videos would be really educational, if your beauty wasnt so distracting XD

Sorry to comment on an older video, but can you tell me what that monitor is that Chelsea is looking at? It appears to have a wooden backing.