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Black & White Conversion
The B&W Conversion filter converts a color photo to black & white. It also contains a number of
controls to manipulate the monochrome look.

• Color Filter. Six Color Filters are available which act similar to glass filters that are placed in
front of a camera lens. Neutral, red, orange, yellow, green and blue. Each Color Filter when
applied will brighten that specific color and darken the opposite color on the color

spectrum. For example: Red is often used to brighten skin tones and Blue to darken skies.
Click the Edit button to redefine any default value.
• Luminance. Color sliders control the brightness of each relative color as it is converted from

color to black and white.

• Saturation. Each Color slider will introduce the respective color that was present within the
original color image back into the black and white image.
• Exposure. Controls the overall luminance value throughout the image. Adding exposure

brightens the image while removing exposure darkens the image.

• Contrast. Controls the differences in the relationships of tonal values. Adding contrast
increases the difference between the highlights, midtones, and shadows. Removing contrast
decreases the difference between these tonal values, “flattening” these relationships.

• Highlights. Luminance control of the brighter values in the image, basically affecting the
tones on the right side of the histogram independently from the darker values.

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