Home › Forums › Photography Q&A › Two Friends › Reply To: Two Friends
Here’s a version edited only with Lightroom, @JamesStaddon. I didn’t think that Lightroom would be the tool for this, since I was not only “selectively” coloring, but adding color. GIMP/Photoshop is usually the tool of choice for that sort of thing. However, after some experimentation, I figured out how to get basically the same results. I didn’t watch the tutorial you mentioned, as I wanted to see if I could figure it out before I watched it. 🙂
The only thing is, when doing the “selective coloring” thing in Lightroom, you lose control of the B&W conversion process. In other words, Lightroom selects what it thinks is best for the B&W conversion, and you can’t really do anything about it. You can adjust the black and white points, but you can’t adjust the way each color turns to B&W like I usually like to do. (At least the way I did it; possibly there is an alternative way to do it, but so far I haven’t thought of it.)
P.S. I also rather liked the color version of this picture! I’m not a big fan of B&W photography, but in this case, I think it’s a good candidate for B&W also.