Creative Black and White, 2nd Edition

Infrared without an IR Camera

Consider this image of Mount Diablo and the California coastal range in the spring. Infrared conversion renders foliage as white—and the more green and growing the foliage, the whiter it becomes under infrared.

Here’s the image after applying a Black & White adjustment layer using the Infrared preset. Bear in mind that the Infrared preset gives you a pretty good starting place for creating a digital image that looks like it was an IR capture—but it is only a starting place. You’ll almost certainly need to tweak the ...