Toning Photos

[Meerkat17]

Whilst I know that there are many ways in which to do this I thought I'd add the way in which I normally execute this process. As in the one which I've posted at this thread:

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=58932

Open the image.

Convert to B&W (you can leave it as a colour image and tone into it)

1. On the keyboard hit: ALT- CTRL-SHIFT~ (the Tild or little squiggle above the hatch # symbol) all at the same time. This selects the lighter parts of the image.

2. Now press: CTRL-SHIFT-I to reverse the selection.

3. Go to Layer / New Fill Layer-Solid color Select a colour using the slider or whatever. (you can alter this later by double clicking on the layer in the layers palet)

4. Change the Layer Blend to Multiply or one of the other modes, its interesting to play with different modes at this point the possibilities are endless.

Have fun.

David

[pdrow]

Wow! Thanks so much! I was just trying to see if there was a simple way to do that last night. I Was so tired from a long day at work, I didn't put much effort into it. I'm glad now that I didn't. I was making business cards and wanted them to have a color on them instead of looking like a black and white image. Some, I am doing in black and white, but some I wanted to add a single color. thanks again.
pam

[gmitchel]

I have lots of resources on my site for B&W conversion and also for toning prints:

Learning Gallery for "Making a Digital B&W Fine Art Image
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/LearningGalleries/B&WFineArt/B&WFineArt.htm

Tutorials
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/Tutorials/MakingAFineArtB&WImage.pdf
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/Tutorials/SplitYourChannelsForImprovedB&W.pdf
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/Tutorials/AddingDimensionToYourMonochromeImages.pdf

PS Action Sets
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools/TLRB&WConversion.htm
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools/TLRSplitChannels.htm
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools/TLRSepiaTint.htm
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/PhotoshopTools/TLRImageToner.htm

Tips
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/TipOfTheWeek/2004SEP13/2004SEP13.htm
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/TipOfTheWeek/2004DEC06/2004DEC06.htm
http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/DigitalDarkroom/TipOfTheWeek/2004DEC13/2004DEC13.htm

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Mitch