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Sepia Effect in PS Elements
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Shay Stephens
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Assuming your photo is or has been converted to black and white already, go to "enhance - variations"
Click on "more red" and "more yellow"
That will get you very close.--Shay http://f707.shay.ws
Click on "more red" and "more yellow"
That will get you very close.--Shay http://f707.shay.ws
david16793
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Hi
The easiest way to Sepia tone your image using Photoshop is using Hue / Saturation. Found under the Enhance > Colour > Hue/Saturation once the Hue Saturation palette is open tick the colorize box.. For a Sepia tone try moving the Hue slider to around 30 then adjust the saturation to taste usually around the 18 to 20.
Hope this helps
David
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MagicAngel
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Actually, it is very difficult to simulate sepia toning in PS. Most people just tell you to make it yellow and red and hey, you got sepia tone! However the truth is much more complex. Sepia toning actually only effects the silver in your photographs, so only the black areas will become sepia, the white areas will remain white. The only way to actually simulate a sepia tone would be to make the blacks yellow/red without effecting the white areas of the print. Look around for a method that uses Duotoning. That is the answer.
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Ulysses
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Sounds like you just kicked "most people" in the crotch, so to speak. :-]
Good tip, however. Do you have more details available on how to achieve the result you describe? I'd guess that the user could achieve better than simply using a plug-in; is that your experience.
I can imagine that sepia aficionados will truly want to simulate true silver as closely as possible, whereas those who are still realing from their injury will make due.
Good tip, however. Do you have more details available on how to achieve the result you describe? I'd guess that the user could achieve better than simply using a plug-in; is that your experience.
I can imagine that sepia aficionados will truly want to simulate true silver as closely as possible, whereas those who are still realing from their injury will make due.
Duotoning is the method. But you can get also similar results with the gradient map tool:
rene
- set the background color to white
- set the foreground color to H=29/S=100/B=9
- Image> Adjustments> Gradient Map
rene
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Shay Stephens
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Great tip Rene. Thank you for giving an example and one that anyone can use without having to buy a "plugin". I just tried it and it works great with PSE.--Shay http://f707.shay.ws
MagicAngel
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I tried the Gradient Map adjustment and it wasn't as good as the Doutoning method I used when I was playing with sepia tone, but it does work in that you end up with whites.
If someone wants to learn the Doutoning method, I did find it on the net last time by doing a search.
If someone wants to learn the Doutoning method, I did find it on the net last time by doing a search.
MagicAngel
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Ok, it is a little hard to follow, for me that is, but here is the Duotone process:
http://www.photo.net/photo/sepia/index
The results are great! Now they don't point this out in the link on Photo.net, but you can save those settings in the Duotone box for next time. Then to make a sepia tone takes like 10 seconds.
However, if you just don't want to type, here is the ado file:
http://www.magicangel.net/Sepiatone.ado
Download that, save it in your .. Presets/Doutones folder and then do the following:
1. Convert to greyscale.
2. Select Duotone.
3. Press the LOAD button and load Sepiatone.ado
Done.
http://www.photo.net/photo/sepia/index
The results are great! Now they don't point this out in the link on Photo.net, but you can save those settings in the Duotone box for next time. Then to make a sepia tone takes like 10 seconds.
However, if you just don't want to type, here is the ado file:
http://www.magicangel.net/Sepiatone.ado
Download that, save it in your .. Presets/Doutones folder and then do the following:
1. Convert to greyscale.
2. Select Duotone.
3. Press the LOAD button and load Sepiatone.ado
Done.
MagicAngel
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Oh, one more thing about this.... Take a color shot and clicking on Greyscale is NOT the best way to convert a color photo to greyscale. It works, but it is by far not the best. The best way would be here:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/BW_filters/index.html
Only $8.50 via Pay Pal and well worth the money.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/BW_filters/index.html
Only $8.50 via Pay Pal and well worth the money.
Shay Stephens
Forum Pro
Good tip on the plugin, however photoshop elements does not handle actions and such like the full version of photoshop. So the challenge is how to do it in photoshop elements using it's tools and capabilities.--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
MagicAngel
Senior Member
It isn't an action, it is an ATO. It sets the color levels for the Tritone image. You should be able to use it in Elements, I assume that Elements supports Tritones, doesn't it? Just pull up the Doutone screen and select LOAD. Should work.
Suzy Q15
Senior Member
Well, here is a site that uses hue/saturation palette to achieve sepia. I don't know if it will be the best choice. http://www.btinternet.com/~bbdigital/newer_web/tutorials/elements/elementssepia/sepia.htm
Shay Stephens
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I will give it a try, thank you.--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
Shay Stephens
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Photoshop elements does not have a duotone function. I have plased the duotone.ado file in the presets/duotone folder, but there is no way to access it from within PSE. That I could find so far anyway.--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
Shay Stephens
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Give this a try and see if you like the results
1) open your black and white image.
2) create a new layer
3) Set the blending mode to color (the default is normal)
4) change the foreground color to rgb 162,138,101
5) use the paint bucket to fill the second layer with the above color
you should have a nice sepia toned photo. Not sure if the color is right on compared to a real sepia photo or not but it looks good to me.
1) open your black and white image.
2) create a new layer
3) Set the blending mode to color (the default is normal)
4) change the foreground color to rgb 162,138,101
5) use the paint bucket to fill the second layer with the above color
you should have a nice sepia toned photo. Not sure if the color is right on compared to a real sepia photo or not but it looks good to me.
--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
MagicAngel
Senior Member
If it is in PSE, it would be under IMAGE, MODE, DUOTONE. However, you must have a greyscale image to start with, or Duotone is not highlighted as you can't go from RGB or CYMK to Duotone....
MagicAngel
Senior Member
This doesn't really work for several reasons, although it does make a nice looking brown print. 
Sepia would be more yellowish, so maybe 161, 117, 25 for the overlay color.
However, that doesn't matter because if you do a color overlay, what you get is yellow/brown colored whites. In a true sepia tone, the whites are still white.
On a funny side bar, I know I have some REAL sepia prints around here some where that I made when I was a kid. I looked for them, but I haven't found them yet. I did come across some prints that looked at first like sepia tones, but they turned out to be very old prints that were tinted yellow to look like sepia tones. (from back around 1930 or so) Strange that even back then they where sticking a yellow tint on a print and calling it sepia tone. Of course that leads to a lot of confusion, because those yellow tinted prints are all over and people think they are sepia tones, but they aren't.
I've made my own sepia tones from black and white prints at home in my basement when I was young. My Mom got really mad because of the smell and forebid me from doing it again....
Sepia would be more yellowish, so maybe 161, 117, 25 for the overlay color.
However, that doesn't matter because if you do a color overlay, what you get is yellow/brown colored whites. In a true sepia tone, the whites are still white.
On a funny side bar, I know I have some REAL sepia prints around here some where that I made when I was a kid. I looked for them, but I haven't found them yet. I did come across some prints that looked at first like sepia tones, but they turned out to be very old prints that were tinted yellow to look like sepia tones. (from back around 1930 or so) Strange that even back then they where sticking a yellow tint on a print and calling it sepia tone.
Of course that leads to a lot of confusion, because those yellow tinted prints are all over and people think they are sepia tones, but they aren't.I've made my own sepia tones from black and white prints at home in my basement when I was young. My Mom got really mad because of the smell and forebid me from doing it again....
1) open your black and white image.
2) create a new layer
3) Set the blending mode to color (the default is normal)
4) change the foreground color to rgb 162,138,101
5) use the paint bucket to fill the second layer with the above color
you should have a nice sepia toned photo. Not sure if the color is
right on compared to a real sepia photo or not but it looks good to
me.
--
Shay
My F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
Shay Stephens
Forum Pro
I appreciate your help, but I dont think you actually have photoshop elements. Version 1 does not have a duotone option under "image - mode". Photoshop Elements is a capable program but appearently not that capable ;-)
Thanks again.
--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
Thanks again.
--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
Shay Stephens
Forum Pro
Thanks, I will try those values.--ShayMy F707 Gallery: http://f707.shay.ws
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