Workshop: digital toning

The following instructions refer to using a .jpeg in Photoshop.

Open Camera Raw in order to have access to the development panel.

The image was fine-tuned to create deep contrast.

This photograph is the starting point.

Taken with a Fujifilm X-T20 with an 18 mm to 55 mm lens

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Selenium toning

· Desaturation set to -100

· Clarity should be between 30 – 50: this image was set at 30.

· Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows etc are adjusted as desired

· Image > Mode > Greyscale

· Image > Mode > Duotone

· Where the option is Monotone is should be changed to Tritone

· Ink 1 > Black

· Ink 2 > Colour Libraries, > Trumatch, colour 40A6

· Ink 3 > Colour Libraries > Trumatch, colour 8E4

· Adjustment panel > Levels > adjust exposure as desired

· Flatten image

· Image > Mode > convert to RGB colour space (to enable saving as a .jpeg)

· Save

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Copper tone

Starting from a black and white image:

· Adjustment panel > colourize

· Hue > select a red/orange colour as desired using the slider

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Blue

Starting from a black and white image:

· Adjustment panel > colourize

· Hue > select a shade of blue using the slider

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Cyanotype

Sepia

· Adjustments > Photofilter > Sepia

· Adjust as desired

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Blue

· Image > Mode > Greyscale

· Image > Mode > Duotone > Tritone. Select colours as desired.

· Ink 1 > Black

· Ink 2 > Blue 30-d4

· Ink 3 > Silvery grey 25f

· Adjustment > Curves > adjust as required

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Copper red

· Image > Mode > Greyscale

· Image > Mode > Duotone > Tritone. Select colours as desired

· Ink 1 > Black

· Ink 2 > 4-a3

· Ink 3 > Cream 9b

· Adjustment > Curves > adjust as required

I feel this is less red and more towards the brown end of the scale than the selenium copper tone.

Toning is a great way to add another dimension to images.