kerrym wrote:Can someone point me to a tutorial in sepia toning? I've played a bit with the channel adjustments, but I'm wanting to get a red/brown tone coming out, and not having much luck in getting the brown shades.
This is a helpful page :
http://www.butzi.net/articles/toning.htm
If you can find an image with the tones you particularly like try his method for constructing a toning curve (the last section on the page). He only uses five points on the gradient so if you're trying to copy something like a tritone or quadtone you might get weird results when you apply the curve to a b&w image consisting of a different tonal distribution.
There is also a nice little program that was posted to another discussion board. I don't have the site but if you google: "tonehacker toning" or try this discussion link:
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/lof ... 12955.html
That page still has the link to his downloading site as of this writing. This fellow does the same thing but samples many more points on the gradient. The last time I checked he routes you through a number of different servers to get around a download maximum. I was a little anxious about installing something from someone I didn't know but it scanned clean and has had no untoward effects on my system. It does indeed do as advertised.
One can also do a b&w conversion by applying a gradient to a second layer. Choose your own forground and background color patches instead of using the default black and white. Choose a very dark brown for the foreground and an almost white on the slight cream side, then apply a gradient in the layer tools >> adjustments.
Rick