Academy · Lesson 1 of 5
Silver Basics
A punchy black & white — learn tone before colour.
What this lesson teaches
- Contrast shapes a photo before colour ever enters
- Lifted blacks give the classic film fade
- Saturation −100 is a creative choice, not an absence
The 2 stages you rebuild
- 1. Exposure & tone — Brightness, contrast and the tonal extremes. Watch the highlights and blacks.
- 2. Presence & colour — Clarity, dehaze and saturation give the look its intensity — restraint wins.
The target look, in numbers
Contrast +28 · Highlights −10 · Shadows +8 · Saturation −100 · 5-point curve.
You are not shown these while playing — the exercise is to reach them by eye and find out how close you got. The same values can be opened in the Studio afterwards.
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