How to tint B&W images in PS7

Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that is B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image, but after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...

I know this is possible in Picture Shop Pro, but can it be done in PS7?

Thanks,
-Daver

Daver wrote:

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that is B&W?

<http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml>

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Regards
Madsen.

Daver,
Open RGB file. Edit/mode/lab (select lab mode). Open channels. Drag the bottom two channels to trash. I think they are called a and b or something like that. Edit/mode/grayscale (select grayscale)
in channels drag bottom channel to trash.
This is how to get the best B&W assuming you don't want color filter effects with your B&W.
From here if you want to sepia tone it or even "touch of color" you need to Edit/mode/RGB
(select RGB)
For sepia ctrl/b which opens color balance. slide the top bar to the right to add a little red.
I do it in each of the three modes shadow, mid, and highlight. Also slide the bottom slider
a little to the left to add yellow. But not as much as you did for the red. True sepia is a little
more red than yellow. You can adjust the color balance until you have the desired tone that
you would like.
For "touch of color" Paint with the brush set to "color" and just select a color and paint the area
that you would like to colorize.
John M.
PS sorry, I am away from the computer that has PS so I didn't remember the exact names of the channels.

Thomas Madsen wrote:

Daver wrote:

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that is B&W?

<http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml>

There is also a 'canned' action in PS7 that will do this automatically for you and you can go back and alter the hue/saturation layer to tweak the sepia tone. Not as sophisticated as the tutorial Thomas quoted but is quick and easy!!

JP

I presume by "B&W" that you mean Grayscale (not Bitmap, which is literally black & white and can't be coloured).

Try this -- stay in RGB mode and go to Image / Adjustments / Hue Saturation. Click the Colorize box and move the sliders around until you get the effect you want.

mm

"Daver" wrote in message

Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that

is

B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image, but after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...
I know this is possible in Picture Shop Pro, but can it be done in PS7?
Thanks,
-Daver

Hello All,

Another way - is to desaturate the image - but if they are already B&W - it should not matter - as long as it is still RGB mode, not GRAYSCALE mode (not much happens in grayscale mode).
-image/mode/RGB
you can use the 'variations' method - it will give you a variety of options for tinting black and white images - which can be changed to suit... -image/adjustments/variations
Once you have got the effect you want - SAVE IT
so you can use it again - to get the same result.

Regards,
Davin
www.davin-photography.com

"max morrison" wrote in message

I presume by "B&W" that you mean Grayscale (not Bitmap, which is literally black & white and can't be coloured).
Try this -- stay in RGB mode and go to Image / Adjustments / Hue

Saturation.

Click the Colorize box and move the sliders around until you get the effect you want.

mm

"Daver" wrote in message

Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that

is

B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image,

but

after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...
I know this is possible in Picture Shop Pro, but can it be done in PS7?
Thanks,
-Daver

jwm2 wrote:

This is how to get the best B&W assuming you don't want color filter effects with your B&W.

I was playing around yesterday and extracted the color from an image by making it cmyk then deleting the k (black) channel. Is this leftover color what you are talking about being converted to grey (in a bad way)?

Does "desaturate" have the same effect?

Pulling the color out like that makes for some interesting possibilities. You can paste it back (after some odd steps I can't recall now) as a separate layer & fiddle with blurring, smudging the colors etc. without affecting the greys.

"Daver" ...

Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that is B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image, but after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...

If you convert to RGB, you should have a full color range in your pallete.

Once your grayscale image is up, converted to RGB, pick a brown color from the pallete, go to edit> fill and put 35% opacity and use the "color" blending mode. This will give you a decent sepia. If you want to fine tune after this, go to Command U (hue and saturation) and tweak to your taste.

Adrian

http://www.amenfoto.com

"A Picture's Worth a Thousand Nerds."

I know this is possible in Picture Shop Pro, but can it be done in PS7?
Thanks,
-Daver

"Daver" wrote in message
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Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that is
B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image, but
after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...

Use the Image>Adjust>Hue/Sat command, and make sure the colorize box is checked. You will then be able to adjust the tint and saturation of the image to a sepia color.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

I've never done it with cmyk. but that would really give a washed out look it seems.
and like you say, interesting.
What I was talking about was found on russel browns website. I can't tell you exactly how he did it but go to his website and look for seeing in Black and White.

He had three layers. The top layer was a black and white conversion layer but it was really cool
because you could go back to the second layer and shift the hue in sat/hue and emulate any color
of filter as you would use over the lens of a camera to i.e. orange would make the blue sky very dark
gray etc. As you slide the control back and forth you can actually see the b&w effect it will have.
John M.
http://www.russellbrown.com/body.html

Thanks for all the suggestions...A cornucopia of information to play with...!

-D

"Daver" wrote in message

Hi everyone,

Wanted to know if there is a way to tint (e.g. sepia tone) an image that

is

B&W? Right now, I convert to Grayscale from RGB to get the B&W image, but after that, I seem to be limited to strictly gray tones in my palette...
I know this is possible in Picture Shop Pro, but can it be done in PS7?
Thanks,
-Daver

Thanks. I like the movie tutorial.

jwm2 wrote:

I've never done it with cmyk. but that would really give a washed out look it seems.
and like you say, interesting.
What I was talking about was found on russel browns website. I can't tell you exactly how he did it but go to his website and look for seeing in Black and White.

He had three layers. The top layer was a black and white conversion layer but it was really cool
because you could go back to the second layer and shift the hue in sat/hue and emulate any color
of filter as you would use over the lens of a camera to i.e. orange would make the blue sky very dark
gray etc. As you slide the control back and forth you can actually see the b&w effect it will have.
John M.
http://www.russellbrown.com/body.html