Black & White Infrared Effect in Lightroom
In this screencast I will show you how to do a non-destructive Black & White infrared technique in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. The secret to this techniques is to choose an image that has a lot of foliage and grass etc in the shot. So this is one for landscape photographer inside you! Nothing can ever replace an actual infrared image shot with either a DSLR converted for the purpose or infrared film, but this technique comes pretty close. Enjoy!
© Stuart Little 2009
I was thinking of a soft sepia image when applying the infrared effect to the image above and although it is a little flat, it has a pretty cool aged effect. The image below was put through the same process but to finish it off I brought it into Adobe Photoshop CS4 and added some film grain non-destructively using a really neat little technique that I will be demonstrating in the next screencast.
© Stuart Little 2009
As with any image it comes down to the lighting and in my opinion if you are going to fake an infrared shot, choose an image with a lot of foliage and also make sure it was shot on a bright day, so that there is a little more contrast in the image in the first place. This will help give you the best results. Oh! and it does not do any harm to shot RAW either…Enjoy! >
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I LOVE infra-red – it’s always been the one thing I’ve missed about film. OK it was a hit or a miss much of the time, but this is a great way to get that gorgeous effect.
I don’t have Lightroom, so I’m wondering how much of the effect I can achieve in Bridge Camera Raw…
The quality of the screencast in HD is astounding.
You should be able to do the same thing in Bridge as its running off the same Camera RAW Processing engine.
Excellent – I’ll give it a try!
Remember and post an example in the Flickr group pool for others to see.