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Emulating traditional darkroom toning effects

Emulating traditional darkroom toning effects - Photoshop Tutorial

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Emulating traditional darkroom toning effects

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- [Instructor] Photoshop has the ability to emulate several traditional color toning effects that photographers have previously achieved in the darkroom. But now, we can create these color effects without actually using any chemistry. I'm going to apply the same effect to these two images. So, from the bottom of the Layers panel, I'm going to select the Gradient Map Adjustment layer. Because my foreground and background colors are set to black and white, I have a black and white gradient map. What's important to notice is that all of the values throughout both of these images are being remapped with this single gradient map. So, if there was a cyan, or a yellow, or a purple in the shadows, it's been remapped to the same value, regardless of the color that it was before. Let's make an edit to the gradient by clicking in the gradient area. That brings up the Gradient Editor, and I'm going to click underneath the gradient, in…

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