Different black and white after editing in Photoshop

Question

Hi! I always edit my photos in Lightroom Classic and some of them also in Photoshop 2022 (from Lightroom to Photoshop and back). Back in Lightroom, I edit them also in black and white. I notice a big difference between the black and white tones of photos that I edited in Photoshop and the ones I did not. The color photos have the same color, it's just the black and white editing. I like the ones that come from Photoshop better, but I don't know how to get the same result of the other photos that don't need to be edited in Photoshop. Does someone know what causes this change? Thank you!

Jao vdL · Answer

Never noticed this but you are absolutely right. The difference appears to be caused by the different profile that is applied to raw files vs that that is applied to rendered images (tiff/psd/etc/) when you click on monochrome. I don't think you can fix this as it appears to be caused by how the profiles are implemented. You can try some of the creative black and white profiles to get more pleasing results but I don't think you can trivially easily reproduce the effect of black and whiting a rendered file for a raw file because of this.

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