Lightroom and Q2 Monochrom

[Viv1857]

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Question... does anyone have a Lightroom recipe to adjust DNG files from the  Q2 Monochrom to achieve sepia tones? The colour adjustments in Lightroom (iPad Pro) are blanked out so unclear how to get toning other than through in camera JPGs.

[Jeff S]

You can use the Split Tone panel, which is now referred to as Color Grading in the most recent LR Classic. This works on Monochrom files. You can separately adjust shadows and highlights (and now mid-tones, too) for both hue and saturation, and further adjust balance and blending.  You might start by bumping shadow hue to 40-ish and saturation to 50-ish. Depends on the look you’re after, but you’ll get the idea with some experimentation.

Jeff

[Viv1857]

Thanks! In that case I think I will need to go back to LR classic as mobile has that function greyed out. 

[plantagoo]

You may try to play around with the color curves to achieve toning in LR mobile.

Greetings 

Erik

[Jeff S]

50 minutes ago, plantagoo said:

You may try to play around with the color curves to achieve toning in LR mobile.

Greetings 

Erik

Color channels (rgb) don’t apply within the tone curve with a Monochrom, which has no sensor color array.  But I don’t use LR mobile, so if this refers to a toning application, that’s another matter.

Jeff