Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 7

Make image adjustments

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Convert a color image to black and white with a color tint

The Color Monochrome adjustment controls are useful when you want to perform a basic
conversion from color to black and white while simultaneously applying a color tint to the
image’s midtones.

Before Color Monochrome adjustment

After Color Monochrome adjustment

(applied blue tint)

Convert a color image to black and white and add a color tint

1

Select a photo.

2

If the Color Monochrome controls aren’t shown in the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments

pane of the Inspector HUD, choose Color Monochrome from the Add Adjustment pop-up menu,
and specify the following settings:

Use the Intensity slider and

value slider to adjust the

strength of the color tint

applied to the photo.

Click in the Color well

to select a color from

the Colors window.

To choose a different tint color: Click the Color well and select a new tint color from the Colors
window, or click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new tint
color from the pop-up color palette.

To adjust the strength of the color tint applied to the image: Use the Intensity slider.
By default, the color intensity is set to the maximum value of 1.0, which is full desaturation and
maximum color tint.

The image is converted to black and white, with the selected color tint applied to the midtones.

You can also brush the Color Monochrome adjustment on specific areas of an image. For more
information, see

Apply brushed adjustments

on page 228.

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