Toning Methods

Option 1

Use of duotones.

Open photograph, in the history palette, open another state by using the icon at the base of the palette.

Go back to the original photo and work as follows:-

Go to Mode > select Grayscale > discard all colour >OK. Go to mode >select Duotones > duotone option box comes up.

To select pre set colours go to Load > presets > duotones > open > open again and the preset colours come up.

Select 144 orange 25% bl1 as a start for sepia toning, select the curve box and finer adjustments can be made.

For further enhancement, select the duotoned image and move onto the ‘duplicate state’ image, and thus you have 2 layers in RGB mode.

Now you can use the opacity to tone down the image, bringing subtle colour into the image.  You can also now use the layer mask to paint items back.

Flatten image when finished.

 

Option 2

Check your image is in RGB mode. Desaturate in the ‘Hue and saturation’ palette, by sliding the saturation box to the left.

Go to colour box and select colour required. To apply colour to image > Open layers palette click on adjustment layer icon which is the half white/black icon, select the ‘solid colour’ mode, this brings up the colour palette, and you get a flood filled layer with your selected colour.

Click normal in the layers palette and select ‘colour’. You then immediately get a toned image.

To make it a bit less gaudy, use the opacity slider to reduce or enhance the colour.

If you don’t like this colour click on the adjustment layer colour and the colour picker comes up. Slide the arrows up and down the colour bar and your toning changes accordingly; click around the box and get different shades. Then flatten image.

 

Option 3

Check your image is in RGB mode. Desaturate in the ‘Hue and saturation’ palette, by sliding the saturation box to the left.

Tick colourize for toning.

For sepia put in 30 hue, 30 saturation

Blue tone 225, hue 40 saturation

Red 0 hue 25 saturation  

 

Option 4

Split toning. Bring up curves box

In channel box select red for example

Make an ‘S’ curve and you get split toning.

Open Hue and saturation palette, use the hue slider and you get different toning colours.