sepia

[sheesh]

what is the best way to get a sepia effect in ps? I have been playing with the desaturation/channel mixer and have not been able to pin down an accurate sepia. any ideas?Thanks

[submannz]

Click desaturate, then select variations add yellow and red and you will be getting quite close and if you fiddle, you will get exactly what you want.

[sheesh]

thanks very much!

[kat]

after all other changes have been made to the image, my method is this:

• convert to grayscale (image/mode/grayscale)
• convert to 8-bit color (image/mode/8 bits per channel)
• convert to duotone (image/mode/duotone)

in the duotone dialog box, select black as your first ink color, and a nice orangey tone as your second color. viola!

[RoB_m]

the printers at my lab don't like duotone images. it's been a little while but i think i did the red/yellow variations thing, but you have to make a hue/saturation adjustment after because it comes out way over saturated with red. you want it to be subtle coloring with a slight yellow tint. you don't want to overwhelm the image with the sepia tone.

[cmM]

epaperpress.com

That guy has some awsome tutorials on how to do a lot of things in photoshop, also some downladable ps actions including a few sephia effects

[feenomenal]

the printers at my lab don't like duotone images.

Would converting back to rgb or cmyk help after creating the duotone? Or is the format itself not the issue?

[RoB_m]

the printers at my lab don't like duotone images.

Would converting back to rgb or cmyk help after creating the duotone? Or is the format itself not the issue?

i don't know. we tried that and it didn't work. it was someone elses image and it was sepia and duotone and kept coming out all posterized and funky. i told her to go to RGB and it still came out funky.

i think for printer compatability, keep color images [sepia included] in RGB and black and white in grayscale mode. our black and white printers have profiles that only work with images in grayscale.