Lightroom tool?

Yes a Lightroom tool because you are not gonna leav this enabled when you are done editing.

This is a super a simple yet very useful Lightroom preset that enables you to toggle a black and white view of your photos while editing without affecting any of your edits. It’s more of a creative tool to help you see your luminance values better while you edit. And since it helps you visualize your photo differently I called it:

VISUAL HELPER

It is a super simple tool and it's most important feature is that can be toggled on and off. --- Without affecting the rest of your edit.

How to use the Lightroom Visual Helper?

The idea is to use this as a supporting layer to get an better view of the luminance vales in your photos.

So you will:

• Click the preset to turn it
• Adjust the luminance locally (with masking) or globally with any Lightroom slider you see fit for the job
• Click the second preset to turn it off and it will go away while all your edits remain in place

How it works?

It is just a mask over the entire image with Saturation set to -100 and the amount set to 200%. Save it as a preset and while you are there make a preset to toggle it off as well by disabling the mask and saving that as a new preset.

Why buy it?

Honestly don't! Watch the tutorial below to create your own version and save money for other tools available on my website like the:

All In One Grain - https://vmoldo.gumroad.com/l/grain

Color Response Curves! https://vmoldo.gumroad.com/l/CRC4

but if you enjoy throwing money my way by all means, go ahead and buy it.

INSTALLATION:

Copy the .xmp files to the specific folder:

Windows: C:Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\Settings

macOS: User Library>Application Support>Adobe>CameraRaw> Settings

You can make as many subfolders and organize the files however you see fit as Lightroom won't care and it will load everything in them

To learn how to add any presets to Lightroom you can follow these steps:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/kb/faq-install-presets-profiles.html