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Creating a sepia-toned black-and-white effect

Creating a sepia-toned black-and-white effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a sepia-toned black-and-white effect

Well now that we know that we want to convert this image to black and white, let's go down that road. Let's take a look at how we can build up an effect that which has a bit more, maybe intensity. So let's start off by creating a Black & White adjustment layer. When we do that one of things that we'll notice is that the image is pretty bright, there isn't a lot of contrast, yet we'll build that in later. Although before we leave this we do want to experiment a little bit with our color sliders, perhaps brightening the reds just a bit and maybe even darkening the blues as well. This allows us just to customize the brightness value of different areas of our photograph. Next what I want to do is I want to add some color toning to this image. I want this to have a nice rich Sepia tone. To do that we'll click on our Color Balance adjustment layer icon, and then in the midtones I'm going to bring up my reds and I'm going to bring up my yellows. And I'm going to this in a way where the color…

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