Black and White & Creative Image Editing in Lightroom - Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom - page 187

Hand Coloring with the Adjustment Brush and
Masking
This technique is applied by applying a Color ef ect adjustment in Lightroom to
an image that has been converted to monochrome in Lightroom. This process
looks a little like traditional Marshall oil hand coloring techniques.
The Color ef ect feature of the Adjustment Brush allows you to brush with color
on your images - much like using the Paintbrush tool and Color blend mode in
Photoshop.
In the example shown here, I started with an image that had been converted to
black and white by desaturating the colors. I used the Adjustment Brush in Color
mode with “Auto Mask” selected. Although the previewed image was in black
and white, it did not matter which black and white conversion method was used
since Lightroom always references the underlying color data when calculating
the Auto Mask. The Auto Mask feature was therefore able to detect the mask
edges based on the underlying colors of the l owers and leaves.
1. Convert an image to Monochrome in Lightroom using one of the methods
outlined in this chapter.
2. Select the Adjustment Brush.
3. Select the Color Ef ect mode from the Ef ect drop-down menu.