We're still here in Indianapolis and we're going to cover a very important segment right now and we'll do this with Jeff Shui and this is Black and White Conversion. For all of you that actually love Black and White but we're all shooting with color cameras this is one way and a really good way to get your images converted over to Black and White and then go through the rest of the procedure to make your print. Jeff, you're on. Thanks, Helen. So one of the things I wanted to show is doing color to Black and White. Now the interesting thing is in the old days I used to shoot Black and White often with a yellow filter sometimes with an orange or red filter because you could change the pan chromatic response of the film. Pan chromatic means the color response of the film. The cool thing about digital now is we're shooting and we're capturing all the color and we can make Black and White conversions after the fact. So there's this image of the old truck we were there together. Yep, that's our hidden treasure in the blues. Yeah, remember this? Oh, Yellowstone. Yellowstone. Yes, I remember. Yeah, you remember this. You remember this? Yeah, I remember. I don't know why your expression is like that. But I saw something in the water. It looked really cool. Okay, snake swimming towards you. J. Maisel. But what I wanted to do is to show a conversion from color to Black and White to tone Black and White. And this is an image from Italy. Here is the original color image. And we selected this because it's probably pretty typical of what most people will try to do is a normal image of doing a conversion. Now the color is decent, but doing the conversion to Black and White if you go to the Black and White panel. Now you can do an auto and what auto does at its marked hamburgs formula to make color contrast optimized. And it's just when you have different colors can go to different Black and White tones. The colors are converted to tones that are indistinguishable. So you want to be able to adjust the tone relationship of the color. And as you see the auto is maybe a little bit suboptimal. But you can come back in here and use the targeted adjustment tool, the tattoo. I think that's the coolest tool in the Lightroom. You can basically click on an area in an image and basically adjust the tonality. And you can see there your sliders moving that relate to that. It's so quick and it's so easy to do. And you can use it in other areas of Lightroom also. But a lot of people don't know about that, which is now good that you showed that. Well it's just the ability to fine tune and adjust the image to be the way you want it to be. So here was the adjusted image. Now the color grading allows you to do highlight mid tone and shadow color toning. And I really love it used to be the split tone. But what I like being able to do is to come in here. And in this case using just the shadow function to adjust the saturation and the hue. You can go all the way to blue. And I really kind of sometimes like a very cool flavor to taste. But also I used to print on a lot of Agra Bervura. I used Kudai G H. So the ability to adjust the saturation, also the luminance of the color, although that actually can adversely affect your tone curve and require readjusting. Then the blending and the balance, you can kind of control what areas are particularly targeted. So now the other thing that you can do is come in to do a split tone where you set the highlights to be warm. That's a little bit too saturated. And then come back in with the shadows to cool down the shadows. Some people actually find that they have a style they like and of course you can save these. And that's something that they spent a lot of time adjusting and that's their look and that's the way they want to do it. And of course if you do save it you can then apply it also to all your further images. Create preset. And in this case it's going to be color grading. And that's going to be split tone. Cool. And it's only going to save the color grading and then that can be applied to pretty much any of the other images that you want. The ability to do the conversion from color to black and white and assign the tonality different colors and then be able to do a monochromatic split tone or warm tone or cool tone like the images up here. I want you to get the options. Your cactus ones are great. I love the way you did the tree and of course our pickup in the old barn. There's a story behind that pickup. We've been going to the pollutes for so long and nobody looks in the pollutes. Yeah and there's this garage that's been sitting there and this is back like forever. There's one phone number is there where like three digits and it's just as perfectly preserved, Dodge Ram truck sitting in this little barn. And a few people know about it but I stumbled upon it a long time ago and I've been photographing it ever since it. Now it's gone with the word that somebody's taking it and bought it to restore. So we'll see where that truck ends up. The other thing that I'll say is in the case of the Epson and even in the Canon, you can do the conversion at the print stage using the advanced black and white mode. The problem with that is that you don't have the ability to do the split toning here. And that is one of the disadvantages of the split toning and the Epson driver. But you can do split ton in image print. All right. Well Jeff, very educational as usual. It's always a pleasure to make black and white and we want to talk about your black and white cactus shots. So we'll come back to that one very quickly and I want to say thanks very much. Appreciate you being here and this was a good step once again to show you how easy it is to make the conversions the black and white and even make your own style and then obviously get it out the print. How's my hair? Wait a second, we gotta get a shot. Go. Go.