Sepia

ivar

So I've always wanted to try 'sepia'... I found an image that I wanted to try this with, I google for a method on how to convert to sepia and voila, 90187349018740192384 different methods. Riiiiight :scratch

So in the end I tried one that looked easy to me (and mainly because this one was written in such a way that I understood it :lol3); Add a layer, fill with sepia like color (i used 5E2612), set to 'soft light' and slide the fill back to around 30% or so.

Result:

What do you think, enough sepia? too much? not enough?

schmoo

I like it! No complaints over here. She's lovely, and you captured her well, too.

Is there a difference between doing a photo in sepia and just toning greyscale? Or does it just depend the hue of the tone you use?

JimW

Ivar, I think it looks just great. One of the potential problems of a sepia toning is that it often looks too red, especially in the 3/4 tones. Checking the values in cmyk in PS, the channels look exactly even throughout the full range, except in the darkest shadows, where the cyan is slightly higher, which is excellent. Looks like it worked well. Lovely capture and treatment.

Jim

ivar

schmoo wrote:

I like it! No complaints over here. She's lovely, and you captured her well, too.

Is there a difference between doing a photo in sepia and just toning greyscale? Or does it just depend the hue of the tone you use?

Thanks Schmoo, I guess this method works.

I'm not sure about the differences between the way I did it and between toning greyscale. What I did do different from the tutorial, is that they desaturated the color version first, and then applied the sepia. I did a bw conversion, channelmixer style and applied the sepia to that. It looked quite a bit different actually, but I preferred this one.

ivar

JimW wrote:

Ivar, I think it looks just great. One of the potential problems of a sepia toning is that it often looks too red, especially in the 3/4 tones. Checking the values in cmyk in PS, the channels look exactly even throughout the full range, except in the darkest shadows, where the cyan is slightly higher, which is excellent. Looks like it worked well. Lovely capture and treatment.

Jim

Thanks Jim! I have no idea what you said about the cmyk values and them looking equal and all, but I'm glad to hear this method works and is liked

Icebear

Works for me!
Beautiful shot of a beautiful lady, and I like what you did with it.

wxwax

Not too little at all, it's a warm photo, very nice.

I often use this Greg Gorman (here's the .pdf) for B&W, because it includes a toning step.

Andy

Luminosity toning works great, too, try it

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1077316

ivar

Icebear wrote:

Beautiful shot of a beautiful lady, and I like what you did with it.

:curtsey Thank you

ivar

wxwax wrote:

Not too little at all, it's a warm photo, very nice.

I often use this Greg Gorman (here's the .pdf) for B&W, because it includes a toning step.

Thanks Sid,

I've saved it, and may give that a try at some point

ivar

Andy wrote:

Luminosity toning works great, too, try it

http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1077316

More tutes to try ... this one has pictures, I'm liking that

schmoo

ivar wrote:

More tutes to try ... this one has pictures, I'm liking that

I use this one and I find it simple and effective.