Lightroom importing

[NJG]

Right Im in a bit of trouble. Ive taken alot of pictures of a wedding, Ive taken some of these in monochrome. Now once ive imported to light room, they convert them in to colour which is not what I want. How do I get them to stay at monochrome once imported to Lr?

Help would be great. Thank you

Been shot in Raw.

 

[arad85]

In develop, click the B&W on HSL/Color/B&W tab. You can adjust the mix using that tab too to get different filtered looks.

 

[NJG]

Ok thats fine, but I dont want to go through pictures indivualy and do this. I basically want the ones that I took in monochrome to stay monochrome, I dont want to go through and adjust because as ive taken them they are how I want them.

 

[arad85]

I dont want to go through and adjust because as ive taken them they are how I want them.

But you shot RAW.

If you want to make them look exactly like the in-camera JPEG renditions, you need to put them through DPP as that is the only software that renders them exactly as the camera does. Lightroom is an approximation.

You can do multiple images by moving to the develop module, applying any processing to one image, selecting all others you want processed like that and pressing Sync.

 

[NJG]

I shoot in raw to give me chance to correct if I've not got it right. Just annoys me that lr converts bw to colour but thumbnails stay bw.

 

[arad85]

Just annoys me that lr converts bw to colour but thumbnails stay bw.

That's because the thumbnails are based on the embedded JPEGs in the raw files - that are based on the in-camera settings!

 

[Buck]

If you shoot RAW you'll get just that when you import unless you also shot JPEGs alongside in which case, use LR to select import these as well.

Otherwise you're either going to have to use Canons proprietary software or batch edit in LR?

 

[Jayst84]

I shoot in raw to give me chance to correct if I've not got it right. Just annoys me that lr converts bw to colour but thumbnails stay bw.

As said, Lightroom isn't converting anything, shooting in raw format means you get all the data that the sensor collected - hence colour.

If you don't want to put them through DPP, quickest way in LR would probably be to select all the mono images via their thumbnails in the grid view. As you say, the thumbnail previews will display as monos so you can see which ones you want.

Hold "alt" and quickly click through them all. Then hit "V" and it will set the process to black and white on them all.

Of course this will only give you the auto mix conversion which likely won't be ideal, but then if you are happy with the in camera monos you should be happy with them.

 

[NJG]

Ok, thank you all for your help. I selected them and then hit th bw button lol.