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There is also a Tint check box in the properties. As I pointed out, you adjust the grayscale image by using the colour sliders or the On Image Adjustment button. In the first part of this series I showed how to create a Black & White Adjustment Layer. How To Add Sepia Tone To A Black And White Adjustment Layerĭesaturate a sepia color using the Color Picker. In this “How To” we are going to look at three ways of using an Adjustment layout to create a Sepia Tone image. Once you are satisfied, click OK to accept the changes. I selected Tint in the Properties, clicked the chip and entered that colour into the Colour Picker. I like the brass in the fixture and sampled it. Sepia is nothing more than the ink extracted from a cuttlefish.Īnother way of using this technique is to select the eyedropper tool and sample a colour in the image. It was also believed the sepia toning process increased the life of the print, which explains why so many sepia photographs still exist.

By doing the replacement the photo developer could change the color, and increase the tonal range of the photo. At that time photographic prints were exposed to sepia in order to replace the metallic silver in the photo emulsion. This photographic technique has its roots in the 1880’s. Sepia tone images simply add a dash of color to a black and white image.

Create a sepia tone image using Adjustment layers.

Sepia in photoshop