Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom Creating a Graduated Neutral Density Filter in Lightroom Most traditional photographers are familiar with the Graduated and Split Neutral Density filters. These filters reduce the exposure over part of the image in either a graduated or abruptly graduated manner. Often Neutral Density filters are used to equalize exposure when shooting a large amount of sky in the image. Used properly, metering and exposure can be adjusted for the foreground details, while preserving highlight detail in the sky and clouds. 1. Select an image and activate the Develop Module. 2. Activate the Neutral Density tool just under the Histogram (M) key. 3. Click on the show effect icon to activate the Exposure panel and create an Exposure Neutral Density filter. 4. In this case I clicked the "+" icon to increase exposure because the house and foreground were underexposed. 5. Click inside the image area where you would like the lightening effect to begin and drag to the portion of the image where you would like the lightening to end. Lightroom will automatically graduate the transition of the effect. You can also hold the 178