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Jim Hess
Aug 27, 2003
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I decided that I just have to share of this experience. I went to a family reunion recently. There was a photograph of my great-great-grandmother. It was brown and and faded, but it was better than anything that I had in my own collection. So I photographed it with my digital camera. When I got home I download the picture and opened it in Elements. The first thing I did was apply "Auto Levels". To my amazement, Elements removed all of the brown and there was actually some color to the photograph. Apparently the original had been handpainted. Then I adjusted the saturation, and when I got through I had a stunning color photograph. But the technique doesn’t work every time. I tried it on another photograph and the color that was there looked terrible. So I converted that photograph to black and white and then simulated sepia toning on it.

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BobHill
Aug 28, 2003
Great post, Jim. And great for those who are into recoloring archived old photos.

Bob
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naomi
Oct 7, 2003
I know that you can create a black and white photograph by removing color, but can you change a color or black and white photo to sepia tones? Appreciate any help…Thanks
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Nancy_S
Oct 7, 2003
Naomi,

Yes you can create a sepia toned image. I can think of three ways.

One way:
* have your layers palette visible on your work area
* go to image>duplicate and work on this copy
* double click layer in palette which says ‘background’ to change it into a ‘normal’ layer * perform whatever tonal/contrast/sharpening improvements you desire * click the symbol at bottom of palette to bring up a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer * move the saturation slider all the way to the left (to desaturate) * create another Hue/Sat Adj. layer
* click the ‘Colorize’ box at bottom right
* move sliders to about Hue=25 and Saturation=35
* Save
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Leen_Koper
Oct 7, 2003
Another, very quick and simple way is to apply sepia in the "Layer styles" menu under "photographic effects".
Or, go to "Variations" and add some yellow and red in varios proportions.

Leen
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Nancy_S
Oct 7, 2003
Leen,

Those were my other two ways, but MUCH too easy and don’t learn anything on the journey 🙂
JC
Jane_Carter
Oct 7, 2003
I have also tried this on my grandfather’s boat pictures, take the picture with my Coolpix 990, then work on it with PSE. Great results!
I am so glad you reminded me, as I have a bunch to scan and photo for an upcoming class that I will be taking in November.
Thanks,
Jane

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