Create a stunning black and white image with this preset.
Color image with slight enhancements in Lightroom
Navy Beach, California
I wanted to create a single preset that covers the best options in Lightroom to create a monochrome photo that creates a strong image where the blacks are black and the whites are white. An image has more impact when it has more than just grey tones.
After applying the preset to your image, use the “Whites” and “Blacks” sliders in the Basic Panel of the Develop Module to further refine the look of your photo.
Download: Black and White Develop Preset (zip file)
Installing the Presets
Windows
- Please download and unzip the presets file and open the resulting folder
- In this folder you will find the presets, they are the files with the .lrtemplate extension
- Open Lightroom
- Choose Edit>Preferences
- On the preferences window, please choose the Presets tab
- Click on the button labeled Show Lightroom Presets Folder (NOTE: If you do not see the AppData folder go to the Control Panel, select Folder Options, click on the View tab. You will see an option that says “Show hidden files and folders”. Turn this option on, then click Ok. As soon as you do this the AppData/Program Data folder will become visible)
- There will be a new Explorer window that appears. Choose the folder named Develop Presets. Copy the downloaded folder with your presets into the Develop Presets folder. It is recommended that you copy the preset folder to this new location rather than moving it from its original location.
- Simply restart Lightroom and that’s it (your presets can now be found in the Presets section of the Develop module of Lightroom)
Macintosh
- Please download and unzip the presets file and open the resulting folder
- In this folder you will find the presets, they are the files with the .lrtemplate extension
- Open Lightroom 4
- Choose Lightroom>Preferences
- There will be a new window that appears. There will be several tabs at the top of the new window. Select the Presets tab
- Click on the button labeled Show Lightroom Presets Folder
- There will be a new Finder window that appears. Choose the folder named Develop Presets. Copy the downloaded folder with your presets into the Develop Presets folder. It is recommended that you copy the preset folder to this new location rather than moving it from its original location.
- Simply restart Lightroom and that’s it (your presets can now be found in the Presets section of the Develop module of Lightroom)
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