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Interesting note, what do you think ?

i have seen this before and used it..... it works very well..

thanks for sharing ,it explains it better than i could .... ;)

Not the way I would do it, but it certainly works. Personaly I prefer to create a new layer of top of the image, fill it with a color, set layer blending to hue, and lower opacity of that layer until I get the right results. But that could just be me and my partiality for using layers any time I can avoid changing the underlying image. :-D

Fine technic too ABodensohn ! My question now is : with what I can use some sepia color tone or other? With landscape, I like to play with the b&w or color, but I don't see good in classical sepia, but in orange or red sepia tone, yes... Like some portrait of people, the color of skin is good in sepia and other is really bad,  What do you think ?

I make this collage very quickly for you Away, it's the distinct level of sepia tone color you can use.

Quote - My question now is : with what I can use some sepia color tone or other? With landscape, I like to play with the b&w or color, but I don't see good in classical sepia, but in orange or red sepia tone, yes... Like some portrait of people, the color of skin is good in sepia and other is really bad,  What do you think ?

The easiest - if, perhaps, not the most helpful - answer is that you can use it any way you like, and whenever you feel like it. To explain: When I started with photography (not too long ago, mind you) I thought of photos as the visual equivalent of journalism - something that reports what is there. But the deeper I delve into it, the more I come to think of photos as the draft of a novelist's work, and think of postwork techniques as something like the editing a story. If it improves the work, then just do it. Sometimes sepia tones may help show what you want to show, other times they do not. But don't restrict yourself to thinking of any postwork technique being suited to just a certain kind of image. That would be like tying one hand behind your back. Just experiment and see where it leads you to. :-) For example: Here I took the liberty of using the original from your collage and added the sepia image on top of it as a new layer. Then I set the layers to multiply and lowered opacity to 50%. Without the sepia tone it would have taken another layer (at least) to arrive at this result, so it can certainly have its uses, even if you don't use the sepia effect on its own. :-)

Oh, thanks for this good help !

I make some work for some papers too, but the law of photography journalism (in Spain) is not touch the picture, only the level of colors and shadow/light.. :(

Now, I hope the the sun and I will can make some picture and test it

Many thanks again

thanks from me too i am always willing to try different ways ...and i works well..

james

Oh yes Away, and you make a very nice postwork today !

Sorry, but this technicality bugs me. A Sepia Tone is when you tone your image with sepia. A "Sepia red tone" is actually just a "red tone." My apologies for the grammar-nazi urge that I had to sate right there...

Sepia was originally a popular toning process to apply to black and white prints because the chemistry involved created a slightly more durable photograph. It also mimicked the discoloration process that happened to earlier chemical processes. Thus, sepia toning in the digital age is a cultural response. We think of images colored in this way as having an Olde Time look, and so it's a nice way to create a sense of history in an image.

Valerie-Ducom's sepia toned image illustrates the point nicely. The sepia image gives a sense of a much older nature scene than any of the others.

If it were my photo, I'd consider adding a Hue/Saturation layer beneath the toning layer, which shifted the blue to a noticably different value, to help seperate the background. I tend to find that this sort of monochromatic toning creates a very graphic-illustration look to my images, so I'm less concerned about maintaining realism in value-relationships.

The "sepia tone"  isn't the grammar-nazi, far of my idea, it's just the name to put filmmagic and I just take the same name that they used.