Make masterful monos in Affinity Photo

Go beyond simple monochrome conversions with targeted raw colour and contrast boosts

Affinity Photo’s Develop Persona offers a great deal of control over black-andwhite conversions. It’s geared towards raw photos, and appears automatically whenever you open a raw file in Affinity Photo. Any edit you make here can be altered at any point, and is only committed once you click the Develop button in the top left. This means you can make a series of adjustments to enhance different areas of the black-and-white image, then balance them to work in harmony with one another.

It might seem obvious, but it’s worth remembering that when colour is removed, an image is reduced to shades of grey. Objects that may have contrasted with one another in colour might become indistinguishable in monochrome. As such, much of the work with blackand-white editing is in manipulating contrast.

Black-and-whites can typically withstand stronger local adjustments than colour images, so you have more scope for lightening or darkening areas or boosting contrast. In Affinity Photo, we can do this with Overlays – we can use these tools to convert our raw photos to masterful monochrome with ease… Find out more at affinity.serif.com/photo