adobe lightroom -- B&W filter

[triplefinger]

Hi, I'm fiddling with lightroom, aperture in 10.5 doesn't like the RD-1... again.

anyway, in aperture there's a setting for B&W film with a particular filter, green, red whatever.

is there a similar quick setting in Lightroom?

thanks for the help.

Mike

[charjohncarter]

I just used the Beta version. But I think I remember that you could make filters from all or any three colors and then save them as presets.

[venchka]

There are no such filters in Lightroom that I have found. I wish there were.

[bohdan]

There is not.

However, if you convert to greyscale and scroll down there is a place to change how much effect red has on the scene. It's like using and adjustable red filter...

[plummerl]

This site has quite a few (many!) presets for the develop module of Lightroom, I will be taking advantage of them myself:
http://inside-lightroom.com/bw.php

[JT2007]

stupid question (because I could test and I have but still) but here it goes:

if I take a B/W RAW picture with a digital filter (camera Epson R-D1) what does the Lightroom default presets do for this filter effect? Does it take out the filter effect and do I have to recreate it again with color channels?

[mabelsound]

There is not.

However, if you convert to greyscale and scroll down there is a place to change how much effect red has on the scene. It's like using and adjustable red filter...

Yes, that's how it works in Lightroom--it's actually quite a bit more versatile than a virtual filter would be...just another way of working.

I have the Rob Sheppard Lightroom book...the Focal Press one. At first it seemed kind of dumb to buy a book for such a simple program...but Lightroom is deceptively deep and the book has turned out to be really handy.