Digital Photography and Photo Editing Tutorials

Tutorials

In this months tutorial we will be looking at simple ways to create black/white and sepia toned prints from your colour images.

B/W Option 1

By far the simplest and quickest way to create b/w images from your colour images is to use Desaturate.
(Image> Adjustment> Desaturate).

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B/W Option 2

Another option is to use the channel mixer. This will give you more control of the 3 channels
(red, green, blue), allowing you greater freedom and creative possibilities.
Simply click the monochrome tick box, and then adjust the channel sliders until your happy with the result. Be careful not to burn the images by adjusting the sliders too far.

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Sepia

A great way to create realistic sepia tone prints is to firstly generate a bw version of your image, using yourpreferred method, such as those above.
Then add a hue & saturation adjustment layer and click the ‘Colorize’ option.
As a good starting point try the following settings: Hue:36 Saturation:12 Lightness: 0.
Then click OK.

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Then set the mode of the hue & saturation layer to ‘Colour’ to give the sepia tone a more subtle feel. You can now adjust the opacity of the hue & saturation layer to suit. This method for achieving a sepia tone will often bring about a more realistic and pleasing result than using the sepia filter found on many digital cameras.

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Coming Soon...

In our next tutorial we will be looking at removing unwanted objects with the clone and healing brush tools.