Hi I'm Doug McKinlay and you're watching AdoramaTV.
Now one of the things I miss about film days, is shooting black and white
infrared pictures. Now the film is still available but since I've gone digital
I've got a bit lazy. So what we'll do today is we will convert a color picture to
black and white infrared. We will do this in lightroom and then tweaked and nik
software colour efex pro 4.
Let's get at it.
So we've got the Lightroom 5 interface up and with Lightroom we are going to
convert our color image to a black and white infrared.
Now as I said before it's a fairly simple process and with an image that's
got a lot of foliage in it you're going to get a better result, so keep that in
mind when you're picking your pictures.
So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to look at we're going to
click on the basic tab on the right hand side, where the toolbar is. Now with our
temperature here if we take the temperature slider and drag it to our
right, we're going to get a warmer picture but we don't want that for
infrared. So we're going to drag it to a hundred, minus a hundred to the left. You
can see the change is already happening it's become this sort of bluey kind of
awful looking picture. Now with the tint
we have to be a little more precise with that. So we're going to drag it to the left as
well and we're going to hit around 70, 71ish, 72ish.
Let's call it 71, you can see the Greens and the Magenta's already starting to pop on
this.
That's our that's our first step in the process of about changing our color
image to a black and white infrared image.
Now the next step in the process is we are going to grab the HSL box here and
as you open it up you can see all that the color sliders, which will adjust all
the different tones in your color if you want but we're going to click on
black and white.
Now we're going to bring all of them back to zero to start with, all the
sliders.
Double-click on the on each color name and it will put a little
cursor back in the center of the sliders.
Ok so now it looks like a fairly flat black and white image but we're going to go a
little further into this. So we are going to take the green and the yellow slider
and we're going to bump that right up to 100.
Both of these guys.
Drag it to the right. You see our cat is starting to ghost out in the middle here
and from there what we're going to do is grab the blue slider and drag that off
to the left a little bit.
You can start to see, now we're starting to look like a
real black and white infrared image. You can hardly see the cat now.
Now that's that's basically it in a nutshell. If you want to change anything
what you might want to do is add a little bit of a little bit of vignette.
to it. Just open up the vignette in the effects box and drag that down a little bit to
the left.
That's enough. Now for what I do now is I export this. I export this to
Photoshop. So export, give it a name.
We're going to call it 'infra red cat 1’,
lets just separate that 1 a little bit and actually lets call it something
else. We’ll call it ‘inferred cat 2' because I have another file in there with the same name.
So we'll export, and because this pictures at tiff file its
opening up into the raw converter in Photoshop but we're going to just ignore
that, hit open and then from there
what I'm going to do is I'm going to now go into the Nik collection
color efex pro 4, click on that and our image will come up in the
interface for the Nik collection.
Now there's already a filter open here, we're going to get rid of this filter. It’s
the indian summer filter.
We don't need that.
Now all I'm going to do here is I'm going to add a little glamour glow.
Just to give it a little more of that ethereal kind of look. So we're
going to go in we're going to hit the glamour glow pretty
hard. So strong glow.
That's going to, as you see up on the right hand side of the tool boxes up here
you'll see it goes up to a hundred percent.
Well just grab the slider and just start to drag it off to the left.
This is a completely personal kind of choice here how much you want to put in
which one to take out.
I’m at about fifty percent, that's not to bad but I think it's probably still
a little heavy-handed. We’ll take it down to about 35.
There you go. I quite like that. I will add one more filter and we're going to go back
into our main box here, I’m going to filter choices and we are going to grab the
image borders.
There's a whole array of choices here, I think it's about 14 or something choices.
Just click on this little box you'll see, yeah there is 14 and you can just see the
change as you scroll through, you'll see the styles will change.
You pick whatever one you like or none, it's totally up to you up to the individual.
I kind of like the messy one, so we're gonna pick that. Now what you can do here is
you can you can reduce the size of it a little bit, so there's less white showing
and you can spread out the sort of the edges a little more.
So it looks a little messier. We can make it rougher or cleaner,
let's go really rough, that looks pretty good.
Once you've done all that then it's just a matter of clicking ok and the
picture will work its way through the software and back into Photoshop on your
desktop. As I said before in one of the other videos we are using a smaller
file size here simply because larger files take a lot longer to work through
the computer and we'd be here forever.
Almost done, there you have it.
One black and white infrared picture with a ghost cat. See what I mean by all
the foliage. The foliage really helps enhance the look of the infrared picture.
So that's it. That's infrared conversion in a nutshell, pretty easy.
Thanks for watching I'm Doug McKinlay for AdoramaTV, now don't forget you can
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