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Toned



Beyond the Forest: Toned, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

I thought it would be interesting to see my image of Church Towers from the Yosemite Valley floor in winter as it might have looked as a palladium or platinum toned print.

First I converted the image to black and white in Photoshop, using the so-called Ansel Adams effect (results below). I converted the black and white image to grayscale, then converted the image to Tritone, picking colors and adjusting the curves to get the effect I liked. As a last step, I converted back to RGB added a red-tinged adjustment layer in Color blending mode to pick up a hint of red for my “toned” digital image.

Beyond the Forest: Black & White

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2 Responses to “Toned”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Nautilus in Black and White Says:
    March 28th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    […] was the selective deployment in tritone mode (also explained in Light & Exposure and see Toned), using black, white, and Pantone metallic silver as the three […]

  2. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Monochrome Shore Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    […] noting: quality vintage black and white prints were not actually “black” and white, but toned to create a rich (but monochromatic) […]

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