![]() ![]() I have rarely found a photo that benefits from being made monochromatic in post-processing. You can use this technique for creative purposes. To create a monotone photo, you can set both the shadow tone and the highlight tone to the same color value setting. In the Split Tone panel, you can set different tones for the highlights and the shadows. Locate the Split Tone panel on the right-hand side of the screen. To do this in Lightroom, go to the Develop module (press D). Using Lightroom to Post-Process a Photo as MonochromeĪs mentioned above, you can also post-process a photo to be monochromatic. If you’d like to learn more about the Google Nik Collection, check out our in-depth tutorial. This type of colorful image is a great twist on a monochromatic image. ‘This image caught our eye with its cool blue hues and simple composure. ![]() This photo appeared on the Google Nik Collections website with the following comment: It was captured in-camera with a long shutter speed.īecause of the time of day, the colors in the water and the sky matched quite well with the bathhouse. The photo below is not perfect monochrome photography, but it’s close. This close-up photo of a group of mushrooms shot from below only contains variants of yellow-brown colors. This only contains variants of yellow-brown colors. This will create more contrast in the photo.Ī close-up photo of leaves would be a good example of a natural green monochromatic picture.Īnother example is the photo of the underside of a mushroom below. To capture a natural monochrome image in-camera, get the brightest and the darkest variants of the color into the frame. Next up you will find the neutral green variants, which is the same as green mid-tones.Ĭlosest to the center of the color wheel, you will find the ‘shades’ or shadow tones of green. Going towards the middle of the color wheel, we next have the ‘tint’, which refers to the green highlights. ![]() On the outside ring, you have the pure color (sometimes referred to as the ‘hue’), labelled with its name. Let’s take the example of green and variants of green. These show you a rough illustration of variants within a single color. You can see that each color is divided into smaller pieces. 1899 Capturing a Slice of the Color Wheel 1909 Vintage cyanotype photograph of schoolgirls doing calisthenics, c. In such photos, the warm and cool tones were the results of specific toning chemicals used in the developing process. These are the most common examples of monochrome photography. You may have seen vintage sepia or cyanotype photographs. These days this is most commonly done using Lightroom or Photoshop, although it is not a new practice. This involves taking an image and limiting it to a single color range. You can also decide to post-process a photo as monochrome. If you wanted a green monochrome photo using only your camera, you would seek out a scene where the only colors in the frame are variants of green. This could be different shades of blue, green, or grey, for example. Monochrome photos contain variations of only one color and nothing else. ![]()
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