Combining Black & White adjustment layers with blend modes

Taking advantage of blending modes with the Black & White Adjustment opens up a whole …new world of color-grading and exposure opportunities. Once we apply it, we can go ahead and take …advantage of the standard On-Image tool to get a strong conversion that we're happy with. …Using the different sliders here, I'm just going to go ahead and create an overall look. …Once I'm done with that, I'll leave the layer selected and choose the Move tool. You can …of course go through one layer at a time, trying out different modes, but what I find …to be more useful is with the Move tool selected, use the shortcut of Shift+Plus. That lets …you select the layer and then step through your modes.…

Notice that different blend modes create different results. I really like Overlay there, which …is popping the background area, recessing it a bit, while putting higher contrast into …some of the color in the foreground. …Let's see that over here on another image. I'll just apply a Black & White adjustment …and we'll do an auto value. And using the keyboard shortcut of Shift+Plus, I could step through …