Sepia toning

[kerrym]

Hi

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.

[kerrym]

ps... I'm in Photoshop (7)

[castledude]

http://www.photoshop-filters.com will have a premade filter for doing it.. But if you must do it manually...

1- Desaturate to make it B/W
2- Crank on the Contrast to lose some detail
3- Create a layer that is entirely yellow or gold (or whatever) on top of this picture then fade it (increase transparency) until you get the desired effect.

If you like it a little muddier (old fashioned) then put the picture layer on top the color layer below and fade the picture layer.

[christophertravels]

I use Elements 4.

I use a New Adjustment Layer, Gradient Map and the mode set to color. The foreground colour is set to a nice brown colour. I don't really know how an adjustment layer and gradient map is different than a new layer, but this works well for me.

[kerrym]

Thanks very much for the assistance. Can't wait to try it. Will post a pic here when I've had the chance to do it.

[sheila]

Try the free Optikvervelabs filter which has many sepia tones (PC only)

http://www.optikvervelabs.com

Cheers
Sheila

[davidclunas]

first of all read up on black and white conversion. Don't rely on desaturate.

To do the sepia create
1) a good RGB black and white and then convert to greyscale.
2) convert the image to MODE DUOTONE
3) select tritone

Now select colours of your choice and move the curves around to produce a result you are happy with. I usually work with a highlight, midtone and dark colours and adjust the curves by boosting highlights and trimming the dark curves.

[wakenphotography]

I'm with David on this one...... I use Duotones and Tritones.

[rickl52]

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

[martinphotography]

Once you convert an image to grayscale (instead of RGB) you can access tritones and quadtones via the Image:Mode menu. Then, using the Load option on the Duotone Options dialog, you can navigate to the Presets folder, open the Duotones Folder and find some nice presets for both tritones and quadtones. They are very well hidden. I found that I liked working with the tritones to get a nice light sepia look to the grayscale image. Once I had done the tritone conversion, I then converted the image back to RGB, placed the original color image over the tritone as a layer, and reduced the opacity to allow a little color to show through. This gave the image a nice tint of color, almost a hand-tinted look.

http://ecarmel.typepad.com/elizabeth_carmels_photogr/2007/03/tritone_and_col.html

[simplephotography]

Easy way of doing it:

First image-adjustments-desaturate

then image-adjustments-variations

Then put the slider at the top (it mentions 'coarse', don't know by heart what it's called) one click to the left, then two clicks on yellow, two clicks on red, and you have your perfect sepia image.