7 We would always recommend, if you are using a Raw file,
go to the Lens Corrections panel and under Profile, check
both the Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Profile
Corrections buttons. Any lens distortions and colour fringing
will be automatically removed from your image.9
In the same panel you have Red, Green and Blue Primary
Hue and Saturation sliders. If you adjust these sliders, you
will see you can have a huge impact on the colour rendition of
your image. You can get the grass looking bright and lush and
the sky a more vivid blue. Try not to be too heavy-handed.10 You may wonder why it’s worth worrying about colour so
much since it will end up as a black and white image. Well,
many would argue that a good black and white image needs a
better colour image to give you more tonal values to play with
when it comes to converting to black and white.11
The simplest things you can do to turn your image to
black and white, is to go to the Saturation slider under the
Basic panel and just move it all the way to the left so it reads as
-100. This is fine for a quick conversion and to be fair, it doesn’t
look half bad. There are other options though.12
In the Basic panel, next to Treatment, are two options.
There is Color, which you are already using and there is also
the Black & White treatment option. Clicking on this, removes
certain options like Vibrance and Saturation which means you
have to control the look of your image in a different way.8
It is reasonable to assume you might want to boost
Saturation at this point. There is an alternative method
that works very well for Raw files. Under Camera Calibration,
make sure the Process value is set to 2012 (Current) and Profile
is Adobe Standard. Then you can proceed to the next part.142
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