Learn Black & White Editing

Learn how to create stunning black and white photos with these tutorials on tone, texture, and converting from color to black and white.
  1. How to Convert Images to Black and White in Photoshop (9 Methods)

    How to Convert Images to Black and White in Photoshop (9 Methods)

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Are you wondering how to make images black and white in Photoshop? Here we'll cover 9 effective methods you can try today!

  2. How to Convert Photos to Black and White With Lightroom Classic

    How to Convert Photos to Black and White With Lightroom Classic

    Tutorial Beginner

    Lightroom is one of the best applications working in black and white photography. In this tutorial you will learn how to use its powerful features to...

  3. How to Colour Balance Monochrome Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    How to Colour Balance Monochrome Photos Using Lightroom Classic

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Colour balance is more important in converting to black-and-white than many photographers realize. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can use colour to...

  4. How to Retouch Portrait Photos Using Dodge and Burn

    How to Retouch Portrait Photos Using Dodge and Burn

    Tutorial Beginner

    Here’s a simple, effective alternative to dodge and burn and it’s completely non-destructive!

  5. Hotshots: Warm Mosque Light

    Hotshots: Warm Mosque Light

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this series, we present a look-book of authentic photographs collected by the writers and editors here at Envato Tuts+. We hope these pictures inspire...

  6. Color vs. Black-and-White Photography: How Palette Affects What We See—and Feel

    Color vs. Black-and-White Photography: How Palette Affects What We See—and Feel

    Tutorial Beginner

    Color photographs portray a subject vastly different than black-and-white photographs do. Learn the features of each palette and how they can help clarify—or...

  7. On the Station Platform

    On the Station Platform

    Tutorial Beginner

    Sometimes images aren't what they first appear to be about. In this Look at This! I examine Toni Frissell's Victoria Station, London, 1951 to see what the...

  8. 5 Inspirational Black and White Images and How to Make Your Own

    5 Inspirational Black and White Images and How to Make Your Own

    Tutorial Beginner

    The time of associating black and white photography simply with old photographs has passed. Many photographers choose to work only in this way, often to...

  9. A Boy Among Men

    A Boy Among Men

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this post for the series "Look at This: Hail the Maintainers," we take in a powerful group portrait of a boy with his coworkers during a time long gone.

  10. A New American Gothic

    A New American Gothic

    Tutorial Beginner

    What can you tell from a photo? From the Look at This series, join Melody Nieves as she dives into the story behind this 1942 photograph by photographer...

  11. Solarized Like Zayn: The Digital Sabattier Effect for Surreal Portraits

    Solarized Like Zayn: The Digital Sabattier Effect for Surreal Portraits

    Tutorial Advanced

    There's inspiration all around you, even in pop culture music videos. In this tutorial I show how to recreate the Sabattier effect just like Zayn. On the way...

  12. Look at This! Pictures of the Great Depression by Berenice Abbott and Dorothea Lange

    Look at This! Pictures of the Great Depression by Berenice Abbott and Dorothea Lange

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this photograph we see some cobbled together huts and two men sitting outside. What can we glean from this? Are they just homeless or is there more to...