Forum: Photography


Subject: Sepia and Photoshop

Mayliah opened this issue on Aug 11, 2005 ยท 20 posts


Misha883 posted Sat, 13 August 2005 at 8:54 AM

:-) Thanks, Martin. Here I copied just the Blue channel as I liked the contrasts. [In converting from color to B&W I use the channel mixer, or usually just grab one of the pure RGB channels. Usually the Red or Green looks the best. Red simulates old ortho film. But here the Blue channel emphasized the contrast between the face and blanket, and almost started to wash out the face as in an old faded photo. The noise in the Blue channel also contributed to the aged feeling.] Convert the Mode of the grayscale copy to RGB. For the toning, I used one of the "Donald" presets, avalable free in our Resource Center downloads area. These vary the color depending on luminosity, and give a much deeper effect than with applying an overall color cast. [Though one can get a similar result using the Color Balance controls applied selectively to highlights and shadows.] I think I used "Kaliotype" rather than "Sepia," BTW. The color after curving was somewhat too much, so I turned down the saturation slightly using the Hue/Saturation slider.