Tinting a Grayscale Photo

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Image > Adjustments > Color Balance

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"L B Olson" wrote in message

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

in article , L B Olson at
wrote on 07/12/2004 5:24 PM:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Read your manual.

In news:L B Olson typed:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Ther are a lot of method, and then some, for doing this. Here's three: The fastest is to drop the image or a folder full of images unto the "make sepia tone" droplet available in PS6, probably in 7 and 8 also. Or you could use, after reverting the image back to RGB, a hue/saturation adjustement layer; check the colorize box, move the hue slider to about 43 and adjust the saturartion and lightness to taste. Or, make a new layer above the image; fill it with something like #EAD38C, set the layer mode to color and adjust with the opacity slider. As a side note, I usually use the channel mixer to make B&W photos from color instead of turning into a straight greyscale, a lot more flexible. HTH.

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In news:L B Olson typed:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Ther are a lot of method, and then some, for doing this. Here's three: The fastest is to drop the image or a folder full of images unto the "make sepia tone" droplet available in PS6, probably in 7 and 8 also. Or you could use, after reverting the image back to RGB, a hue/saturation adjustement layer; check the colorize box, move the hue slider to about 43 and adjust the saturartion and lightness to taste. Or, make a new layer above the image; fill it with something like #EAD38C, set the layer mode to color and adjust with the opacity slider. As a side note, I usually use the channel mixer to make B&W photos from color instead of turning into a straight greyscale, a lot more flexible. HTH.

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www.odysea.ca

Instead of going grayscale you might try image/adjustments/hue-saturation and check the "colorize" box in the lower right hand corner. Adjust from there. Should do the trick. In PS7, anyway.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:00:33 -0400, "Deco_time" wrote:

In news:L B Olson typed:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Ther are a lot of method, and then some, for doing this. Here's three: The fastest is to drop the image or a folder full of images unto the "make sepia tone" droplet availale in PS6, probably in 7 and 8 also. Or you could use, after reverting the mage back to RGB, a hue/saturation adjustement layer; check the colorize box, move the hue slider to about 43 and adjust the saturartion and lightness to taste. Or, make a new layer above the image; fill it with something like #EAD38C, set the layer mode to color and adjust with the opacity slider. As a side note, I usually use the channel mixer to make B&W photos from color instead of turning into a straight greyscale, a lot more flexible. HTH.

Thanks, the hue/sat approach seems to be choice (I'm using CS). I read the help file quite a bit, but it is little use sometimes if you don't know just what you're looking for and what it's called. Duotone seems to do something similar.

The exact effect I'm trying to acheive is that used on the Bill Graham image in the top right banner of the "Bill Graham Presents" website:

http://www.bgp.com/main.html

A friend has asked me to do a picture of him and his wife in just that way for his website. I'm a coder, definitely not an artist :S

Straight sepia looks great, but the dark washes out. You can see how Graham's blacks stay black, yet the high contrast looks very good and not unnatural. Still looking for the right combo of things.

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:09:22 -0400, "TooSano" wrote:

Instead of going grayscale you might try image/adjustments/hue-saturation and check the "colorize" box in the lower right hand corner. Adjust from there. Should do the trick. In PS7, anyway.

Started with the color original again, it does work well, with CS too.

Go to Image>Mode>Duotone then select Duotone from the dropdown and then mess with a bunch of colors. Hint one should be darker than the other. you should also note there is a curves function associated with the colors.

Charles
Torrance, California
http://www.tcpslashipdomains.com

"L B Olson" wrote in message

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

L B Olson wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 23:00:33 -0400, "Deco_time" wrote:

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http://www.bgp.com/main.html

A friend has asked me to do a picture of him and his wife in just that way for his website. I'm a coder, definitely not an artist :S
Straight sepia looks great, but the dark washes out. You can see how Graham's blacks stay black, yet the high contrast looks very good and not unnatural. Still looking for the right combo of things.

You're nearly there I think.
If you lost some contrast either use curves or levels to get it back in. Open the levels dialog (Ctrl-L) and move the left slider to the right to darken the blacks until you like what you see.
An easy way of finding the darkest spots and turning them into absolute black is this:
(assuming you have the yellowed photo in one layer) Select the layer Choose Image-Adjustments- Treshold. With preview selected you see just blacks and whites.
Move the slider to the left until you have only a few tiny but easily clickable spots of black left (don't make them too small, 5x5 or bigger is fine). Shift-click on that point. Cancel the tool. Now open the Levels or Curves and click on the leftost eyedropper (blackpoint selector). Click on the spot where the circular and crosshair target is. Now you have complete black and the widest range from there.

By the way, another easy way of colorizing b/w shots (I also prefer to make b/w out of colour using the channel mixer rather than Grayscale) is simply by adding a layer on top of the pic, fill it with the tint you like and adjust the layer's opacity slider until you like the effect. Most of the times Multiply as a screen mode works best for me.
HTH
Pjotr

L B Olson wrote:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

I just stumbled across yet another very nice toning tut, might be worth checking!
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/index.php?m=show&id=118

(no I am not affiliated, just another happy surfer)
Pjotr

Very good replies, though duotoning is only applicable when you have press printing pupose.

Image > Adjustmensts > Gradient Map
also can do the job.
Try adding a color bucket with the third sepia color. (Don't make a gradient from black-brown to white/yellow)

"Pjotr Wedersteers" wrote in message

L B Olson wrote:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

I just stumbled across yet another very nice toning tut, might be worth checking!
http://retouchpro.com/tutorials/index.php?m=show&id=118
(no I am not affiliated, just another happy surfer)
Pjotr

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:24:07 -0700, L B Olson
wrote:

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?

Try these two effects from Repligator:

http://www.ransen.com/Repligator/Sepia.htm

http://www.ransen.com/Repligator/Tinted-Negative.htm

Athough it says negative it will do positives too!

Unique and easy to use graphics programs
http://www.ransen.com

Pretty sure there is a cool plug-in for sepia here.

http://thepluginsite.com/download785958095/index.htm

"Tiemen Rapati" wrote in message

Very good replies, though duotoning is only applicable when you have press printing pupose.

That is the main reason you would use a duotone but as with everything secondary uses may apply. You can easily afterwards convert it to rgb for a wider range of uses.

Charles
Torrance, California
http://www.tcpslashipdomains.com

True.

"Tabasco1" wrote in message

"Tiemen Rapati" wrote in message

Very good replies, though duotoning is only applicable when you have

press

printing pupose.

That is the main reason you would use a duotone but as with everything secondary uses may apply. You can easily afterwards convert it to rgb for

a

wider range of uses.

Charles
Torrance, California
http://www.tcpslashipdomains.com

The easy way:

1. load image
2. image -> mode -> grayscale
3. image -> mode -> RGB
4. image -> adjustments -> variations
5. put the slider to a desired level and select the color you like, I normally use one step red and one step yellow for sepia tones with a relatively fine level.

Waldo

"L B Olson" wrote in message

I've taken a color portrait, and converted it to grayscale. What I need to do now is tint it. What I'm trying to achieve is something like "yellowed b&w photo". How do you go about doing this?