Black & White

The Black & White adjustment lets you convert images to black and white, but keeps the luminosity information of the original image colors. In other words, you can adjust the black and white balance in the Red, Green, and Blue channels of the original photo.

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Convert a photo to black & white

1. Click or tap Color Adjustments in the toolbar and turn on Black & White.

2. Do any of the following:

   1. Adjust color channels: Drag the channel sliders to the right to increase one channel’s contribution to the final black and white image, or to the left to decrease it.

   2. Adjust tone: Tone adjusts the contrast of the black and white in the image highlights. You can drag the Tone slider to the right to increase the contrast, and to the left to decrease it.

   3. Adjust intensity: To bring back some of the original image color, drag the Intensity slider to the left.