Toning from Digital output

[ray .]

From DSLR color jpg files, in Photoshop CS, I've tried this method...

 

1) Image>Adjustments>Desaturate

 

2) Image>Adjustments>Color Balance

 

... in order to tone black and white or desaturated images..

 

Seems to work well, but what other approaches do people use to accomplish a sepia or other type

of toned photo/print in photoshop or with other software?

[mendel_leisk]

I like the duotone, towards the end of this tutorial:

 

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/tutorials/tutorial_2_1.htm

[brianchapman]

Hey Ray,

 

There are quite a few ways to do this - I prefer using a curve. You can make your own by modifying the R,G,B curves (a crude sepia can be obtained by increasing red in the brighter part of the curve and decreasing blue in the darker areas).

 

If you're interested in copying the toning in another image as a starting point, check out the thread linked to below. The poster has developed a program to build a curve to match the tone in an existing image.

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12955

 

If you use the Tone Hacker method I strongly recommend looking at the resulting curves to see what modifications to the R, G, and B curves created the result you see in the final image and then making your own adjustments to get the results you're after.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Brian

http://www.brianchapmanphotography.com

[john_bright]

I like the 'Split Toning' method that is explained in Mendel's link. I've used it numerous times over the last couple of years and I find it very flexible. Example:

 

http://www.photo.net/photo/3787846

 

Give it a try

[patricklavoie]

To do my BW i use exclusively Channel Mixer with many different recipe i create. To do the sepia (or to tone my images) i use the color balance on them after, a bit of red and a bit of yellow.