Video Tutorials
From Flat to Dramatic: How Joel Grimes Edits Black & White Portraits in Lightroom and Photoshop
There’s a specific frustration I know well: you nail the lighting on a portrait, the subject’s expression is exactly right, and then you open the raw file and it just… sits there. Flat. Unimpressive. Nothing like what you saw in your head when you pressed the shutter. For a long time, my answer was to throw a high-contrast black and white preset at it and call it a day. The results were fine.