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Photo after the Color Zones Module #2 Local contrast to add more details

I find the Color Zones module to be the most effective for darktable black and white conversion. The great advantage of Color Zones is that in the lightness tab you can control the brightness of parts of the photo based on the original colour in that part.įor example, you can control how bright or dark is the sky (originally blue) by just moving up or down the graph in the blue area. Once activated, you can select the preset black & white film that will desaturate all the colours. The first module I am going to use is the Color Zones.

convert the photo to black and white and make it more dramatic, which is today’s tutorialĪnd in true honesty, even before taking this photo, I was seeing the place in front of me with black&white eyes, thinking already about the processing.

change the sky, import a more interesting one.

With a similar photo, usually, you have two possibilities: Starting Point of darktable black and white conversion #1 Color Zones Module for darktable black and white conversionįor this tutorial, I am going to use a photo I made in Munich (Germany) along the Isar River with a nice subject but a washed-out sky and flat colours.Īs you can see from the History, I have done already a couple of minor changes: Perspective Correction and Crop and Rotate.

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Quick Darktable Tutorial to get started for travel photographers.I made also a video about the whole process. Moreover, you will also see how to enhance the black and white version with a few techniques, including dodge and burn. In this tutorial, you will learn the quickest and most effective way where you can control the brightness based on the original colours.

A conversion to black and white in darktable is relatively simple and it can be done in multiple ways.