Lightroom — Lousy Photo Rescue

The photo is lousy! A few photos can be rescued, most of them can't. How do you quickly judge if you should spend the time to rescue it? But you can quickly try by switching to Black & White. Press the “v” in the Library module or the Develop module just to see if the photo will work. Black and white photos have a different feel. Then you can later improve the conversion with the Gray Scale Mix.

It's quick, just the letter “v”, lowercase. You don't like the photo in black and white? Either Ctrl-Z / Command-Z to undo and not having the action in the history or “v” again to return the photo to its original colour.

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