photoshop guide to monochrome and splittone effects

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DANIEL SEAL

A guide to creating black & white, sepia,duotone and tritone effects in Photoshop


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efinition

http://www.pixibit.com/help/glossary.asp

A term used to describe an image or film. Simply, it means thatthe image uses only shades of grey to visualise the subjectphotographed or filmed. The term is closely associated withthe term grayscale.

onversion Techniques

Tutorial #1

1. Open up your desired image which is to be converted to blackand white.

2. Double-click on your background layer so that its easier to editlater on.

Hello and welcome to

Digital Photography. In this

chapter, A guide to creating

black & white, sepia,

duotone and tritone effects

in Photoshop, youll find 7

tutorials which explain

possible methods to

achieve black & white,

sepia, duotone and tritone

effect.

On top of that, weve

included a select range ofnotable photographers and

their work.

I hope that you find this

chapter a useful resource

when seeking to achieve

professional monochrome

and split-tone results in the

digital darkroom.
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3. You may rename this layer, however its fine to leave it as it is.Hit OK.

This is what it should look like now.

4. Now add a new Channel Mixer layer, either by Layer NewAdjustment Layer Channel Mixer or using the shortcutillustrated below.


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5. As you can see, there are three values for Output Channel:

red, green and blue. Instead we only want one so selectMonochrome.

Youll notice how the 3 values change to just one: gray.


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6. Now that weve successfully converted our image tomonochrome, we need to fix up our red, green and bluevalues.

Here are the values that Ive used, but please feel free toexperiment with your own.


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7. Once youre happy with the result, hit OK.

8. Thats it, youre done! Heres my final result.


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Tutorial #2

1. Open up your image which needs to be converted to black andwhite.

2. Double-click on your background layerand leave Layer 0 asit is, unless you want to change it to something else.


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3. Now add a new Hue/Saturation layer, either by Layer NewAdjustment Layer Hue/Saturation or using the shortcutillustrated below.

4. Youll now be greeted with a dialog box which lists threevalues: hue, saturation and lightness. The Master is not theonly value we can edit, but for this tutorial we wont worryabout the other colour settings.

5. Lets change the Blending Mode to Color.


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6. And well add another new Hue/Saturation layer on top of theother one, either by Layer New Adjustment Layer

Hue/Saturation. If this new layer isnt at the top, click-and-dragit to the top of the layer pile.

7. Youll again be greeted with a dialog box. The only value whichwe edit is the saturation value. Drag it to the far left until the

value reaches -100.


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8. Hit OK and youre done! Heres my final result.

n otable Photographers

Bob Kolbrenerhttp://www.bobkolbrenerphotography.com/gallery/gallery.html

Clouds Over Yosemite


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Controlled Burn & Dodge #1

Alan Rosshttp://www.alanrossphotography.com/ar20/FineArt.html

Rock and Forest, Merced River, Yosemite


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Arch, Pyramid Form, St. Louis

Rock Formation, Point Lobos


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Max Dupainhttp://www.maxdupain.com.au/gallery.htm

Stair rail 1975

Orchid detail 1983


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efinition

http://www.all-things-photography.com/digital-dictionary.html

The (brownish) mono toned effect seen in images from theoriginal 19th and early 20th Century cameras. This is now afeature often found as a special image effect on somedigicams and/or editing software.


Tutorial #1

1. Open up your image which is to be converted to sepia.Remember to double-click the Background to change it to aneditable layer.

2. Now were going to remove the colour from the photo using aprocess called Desaturation. Go to Image AdjustmentsDesaturate.

If youre interested in some

quicker ways to convert to

monochrome or split-tone,

heres a list of some good

filters that you can install in

Photoshop,

Autochromatic 2.04

namesuppressed.com

Autochromatic is a

Photoshop plugin for creating

duotone, sepia and colour tint

effects. It can add a rust or

lavender tone, create

psychedelic colour effects,

and helps you select and

tone the colours in your

image to suit the colours of

your website.

PhotoKit 1.2.4

pixelgenius.com

PhotoKit is an Adobe

Photoshop plug-in providing

effects that offer accurate

digital replications of

analogue photographic

effects. PhotoKits image

enhancements and

adjustments are designed to

work in a way familiar to

photographers.

Note: while you can

download these plugins

freely, they each some with

their own license and

limitations. All of these

particular filters have

restrictions as theyre only

shareware. This means that

if you like using the filter,

you can actually pay andobtain the full functionality

of the program.
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3. Now your photo should look grayscale like the one below.


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4. Here comes the fun part where well get to experiment withdifferent sepia effects. Go to Image AdjustmentsVariations.

5. You should be greeted with a large dialogue box. Youll noticethat there are many options available at your disposal when itcomes to colouring your grayscale image. I only changed theMidtones, where I added More Yellow and More Red to theimage. I also nudged the Fine/Coarse slider one unit to theleft.


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6. Hit OK and youll now have a fine looking, sepia-tonedphotography! Heres my final result.


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Tutorial #2

1. Open up your desired image which is to be converted to sepia.


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2. Now were going to convert the photo to grayscale, but thistime using another method in order for our effect to work outproperly. Go to Image Mode Grayscale.

3. As you can see, Grayscale basically achieves the same resultas Desaturation, but Grayscale converts everything (layers,colours etc.) to grayscale mode, while Desaturation onlyaffects the layer(s) that youve selected.

4. Now were going to change modes once again, fromGrayscale to Duotone, using Image Mode Duotone.


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5. A dialog box should appear with Monotone set as the type.Well change this by selecting the arrow on the drop-down boxand choosing Duotone from the list.

6. Another colour will appear which is set to white as the default.

7. But for now letsedit the Black value first. Click on the black-coloured box once and youll now be able to pick a new colour.

I used a hex (#) value of d78a10. If youre confident, feel freeto choose your own. Hit OK when youve chosen your colour.


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8. Next to the colour settings is a box which contains a straight,

diagonal line. This particular tool allows us to change theintensity of the colours at their various points, including theirshadows, highlights and midtones.

Click on the box once and a dialog box will appear. At anypoint along the line, you can click and drag it out to make itcurve in an unusual fashion. Heres what mine looks like aftera bit of experimentation. If you want to apply the samesettings, use the gridlines as reference points to distort the

straight line.

9. The process can now be repeated for our second colour. Forthe second colour, I used a hex value of 0d0b03.


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10. While this second curve appears similar to the first one, Ive

made it a far more jagged and distorted.

11. Almost finished! All we need to do is label the colours. As youcan see, I named them orange and dark brown respectively.


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12.And youre done! Heres my final result.


Lucy Brownhttp://www.whatdigitalcamera.com/gallery/wdc_gallery/Sepia_Eye

Sepia Eye


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Kerik Kouklis

http://www.kerik.com/platinum.htm

Ice House Road in Fog, Crystal Basin, CA


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efinition

http://www.mictom.co.uk/dictionary.php?l=en

The reproduction of a black and white picture in two colours,normally black and another colour. One colour tends to stressthe highlight areas and the other the shadow.


Tutorial#

1

1. Open up your image which needs to be converted to duotone.

2. Now add a new Color Balance layer, either by Layer NewAdjustment Layer Color Balance or using the shortcutillustrated below.

Few know that duotones

were actually incorporated

into newspapers and comic

strips. While halftones were

used more frequently, the

existence of duotones

came about from

cyanotype and halftone

prints.

Thanks, in part to

Photoshop, duotone is also

a generic term for images

using a color-separationprinting scheme

Duotonecolor mode in

Photoshop supports

between one and four

colors of ink. Because

home inkjet printers are far

better at printing full-color

images than black & white,

many photographers use

PhotoshopsDuotone

processing to improve their

greyscale prints.

Photoshop's Duotonemode

is also commonly used for

creating sepia toned prints,

using black and yellow

inks, sometimes with a third

color. This is what we

achieved in the last tutorial

for sepia effects.
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3. Youll now be greeted with a dialog box, with three sliders and

below that, three values for Tone Balance: shadows,midtones and highlights.

Simply drag the sliders to the left or right in order to achieveyour effect. Here are the values that Ive used for Shadows.

The values for Midtones

And finally the values for Highlights.


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I also advise that you experiment, as your photo may look oddwith my settings.

4. Finally hit OK and now youre done! Heres my final result.

Tutorial #2

1. Open up your desired image which is to be converted toduotone.


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2. Navigate to Image Mode Grayscale.

3. After this, convert to Duotone by Image Mode Duotone.


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4. Make sure that you select Duotone from the drop-down list.

5. Here are the colour settings that I used, working down from tobottom.

The first colour uses a hex value of 0f3c87.


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And the second hex colour value is 1fadd1.

6. Here are my curved lines which Ive edited, going from top to

bottom.

The first curve is shaped rather wild, stretching up and down.


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This last curve is far more sedate and only dips near thebottom-left of the grid.

7. When youre happy with your changes, all you have to do isname your colours. As you can see, Ive named the twocolours navy and light blue respectively.

8. When youre happy with your results, hit OK and everything is


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Franziska Langhttp://www.pbase.com/franziskalang/blackwhite

Antique Feather

Anton Corbijnhttp://www.corbijn.co.uk/page_photo_blue_depp.htm

Johnny Depp


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efinition

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Use of three halftone screens scanned at different screenangles, and printed in three colours. The strength of thescan, the choice of ink colours, screen size and pattern, andthe colour and texture of paper provide tremendous optionsfor various results from tritones.


Tutorial #1

1. Open up your image which is to be converted to tritone.

2. Now lets convert the photo to grayscale, by Image Mode Grayscale.

Before we finish, Ill leave you will

three helpful steps to taking

better photos when considering

converting them to monochrome

or split-tone

1. Shoot in Colour

While most digital cameras

offer you the option to shoot

in black & white (and can

produce some reasonable

results) you have more

control over your end results

later in Photoshop

2. Low ISO

Shoot with the lowest

possible ISO possible, as

unwanted noise in

monochrome/split-tone

becomes even more obvious

3. Composition

Since youre unable to use

colour to lead the eye into or

around your shot, you need

to train yourself to look at

shapes, tones and textures in

your frame as points of

interest. Pay particularly

attention to shadows and

highlights which will become

a feature of your shot.
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3. Now doesnt that look good? Of course, were going to make itlook even better, so lets move on.

4. Well now change to duotone, using Image ModeDuotone.


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5. Make sure that you select Tritone instead of Duotone.

6. Here are the colour settings that I used, working down from tobottom.

The first colour uses a hex value of 282723.


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The second uses a hex value of ffe300.

And finally, the last one uses ff5c00.


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7. Here are my curved lines which Ive edited, going from top tobottom.

As you can see, this curve is quite mellow to begin with andsoon becomes very steep.

This curve builds to a climax and then drops down slightly.


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The last curve is more of a wavy line and bends quite a lot.

8. If you were following every direction, you should now havesomething which looks like this. Remember to name yourcolours before hitting OK.


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9. Its finished! Heres my final result.


Elizabeth Carmelhttp://www.elizabethcarmel.com/pages/portfolio.php

Venice


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Brian Clark / Robert Pastierovichttp://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00AdYL

Black Mount, Scottish Highlands


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nalysis and Brief

See introduction of chapter.

ituation and Brief

The chapter for the booklet is designed for beginning digitalimage designers. It includes 7 tutorials focusing on split-toneand monochrome effects, all instructed step-by-step in Adobe

Photoshop CS2.

The chapter is further divided into subsections, namely black &white, sepia, duotone and tritone. Definitions and a list ofnotable photographers and their work is showcased at the endof each section, complementing the tutorials.

Theres also additional information such as third-party addonsavailable, a brief insight into the origins of duotone and a fewhandy tips to capture better photos.

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