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I wanted this image to have the look of one from long ago, so I used
B&W film. But now I'd like to experiment with giving it a sepia tone.
I can't figure out how to make my version of PhotoShop (4.0 LE) do
this.

Any comments on the shot and help with the sepia "toning" would be
appreciated.

One more thing: Why does the contrast and detail of this image look
so different when viewed with my browser than it does in PhotoShop?



-- Colm Boran (cboran@mich.com), November 20, 1999

Answers

It looks like you compressed the image too much before uploading it to your web server. I can see obvious pixels in my browser around the eyes. To me, that makes the picture look very hard and "machined- made." Exactly the opposite of the "old-time" effect you want. For an image this size, 19 kb seems kinda small, the forum accepts up to 80 kb.

-- Mark Rovetta (1234hods@gte.net), November 21, 1999.

Oh that's easy just play with hue/saturation or variations under the image / adjust menu. you can also bleed out the edges to make it look weathered by selecting the image feathering the selecting and pasteing into a new file. nancy

ps, cute

-- Nancy Lozupone (nel106@psu.edu), November 21, 1999.


You need to scan it as a color image or hue/saturation and color balance will have no effect...t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), November 22, 1999.

This isn't a Q&A forum, and I'm not a PS user, but I can get a good sepia effect by adjusting the colour curves (not the saturation). I find adding red and subtracting blue works. You need to be in 16 million colour (24 bit) mode to be able to do this.

-- Gordon Richardson (gordonr@iafrica.com), November 22, 1999.

Ignore previous comments about sepia toning. I'll assume this works in PS LE, certainly it does in full PS.

Under the Image menu there is a 'mode' option. Open mode and one of the options is duotone.(Note - duotone will greyed out unless you are working with a montone image). Click this. You will get a dialogue box showing black as your first colour. Click in the second colour box, and you will get a colour palette to choose from. Select an orange or a brown, and you have a 'sepia'ed' result. You can then adjust the effect, either by choosing a darker or lighter colour as your second colour, or by dragging the curve that appears if you click the curve box next to the colour.

Simple. If it works in LE!. You can also select tritones or quadtones if you really want to go to town.

-- Ken Munn (ken@pcm-marketing.com), November 24, 1999.



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