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Adobe’s Lightroom is a powerful programme and workhorse for many professional and amateur photographers. In Lightroom’s Develop module there are a variety of ways to convert an image to black and white and additional tools to tone and add texture to your photos. There are also plug-ins that you can download, such as Silver Efex Pro 2, which offers lots of fantastic presets. In this video, photographer and photo editor, James Paterson, will run though his top 20 tips for black and white conversions. Make sure you check out his Lightroom feature in the latest issue, April 8, which is\u00a0on sale this week.<\/p>\n

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For more Lightroom tips, see Ben Hall’s 18 Lightroom shortcuts<\/a> that could save you valuable time and energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discover a host of simple tips, tricks and techniques for creating beautiful monochrome photos using Lightroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":103990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,210],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-103988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-photo_editing","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\n20 Lightroom tips for monochrome conversions - Amateur Photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Discover a host of simple tips, tricks and techniques for creating beautiful black and white photos using Adobe Lightroom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"20 Lightroom tips for monochrome conversions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discover a host of simple tips, tricks and techniques for creating beautiful black and white photos using Adobe Lightroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Amateur Photographer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Amateur.photographer.magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-04T09:22:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-04T09:24:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/04\/autothumb-5384443335001-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"860\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AP_Magazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AP_Magazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"20 Lightroom tips for monochrome conversions\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-04T09:22:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-04T09:24:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\"},\"wordCount\":133,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/04\/autothumb-5384443335001-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Latest articles\",\"Photo editing\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_editing\/20-lightroom-tips-black-white-conversions\/\",\"name\":\"20 Lightroom tips for monochrome conversions - 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