B&W Challenge: Editing Special SEPIA

[waday]

Snappseed, vintage simulation, bumped style slider.

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Love the sepia one. What’s the purpose of the extreme camber angle on the front wheels?

 

[jcdeboever]

Snappseed, vintage simulation, bumped style slider.

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Love the sepia one. What’s the purpose of the extreme camber angle on the front wheels?

Lower steering effort

 

[gk fotografie]

This seems more like a comparative study, but I find the ideas of manufacturers about what exactly is "sepia" very surprising!

The original black and white photo is an attempt to digitally imitate a pseudo-solarization. At the moment I'm busy transferring all the info from my old laptop to a new one and I met a number of (free) editing programs that I don't use that much anymore. I searched those programs for the "sepia button" and found most of them!

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original B&W photo

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I know several members (Mac users) on this forum use GIMP, a very good program but I just have too little patience to get the most out of it.

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How about this: I've been using (free) XN View for 10 years as the 'standard' to open/view photos on my computer and have never known it's possible to use this program to give photos a sepia tone.

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PhotoScape is a program I've been using for 12 years now, it is really an amazing (free) program you must download immediately, discover all the possibilities and I am sure you will never delete it again!

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Not free, so exception, but for the finishing touch to my fisheye images of trees, I started to use Artweaver quite some time ago, a drawing program instead of a photo editing program.

 

[smithdan]

Perhaps the weirdest camera I have, the Dover 620-A. Conversion, adjustments and tinting in Silver Efex.
Thought maybe this half pound of Baekelite would look better with a cool selenium tint.

.....my favorite shot from this photographic curiosity, and with a sepia tint warmup.

The Tea Party.

 

[waday]

Three more, these are old photos. Thanks @gk fotografie for allowing old photos. Both follow similar styles as the previous photo I posted: processed in Snapseed and used color curves.

The first is a still life that I thought would look good with sepia toning. The second is a B&W that I converted some time ago, brought to life again now with new processing!

The second of the stacks is one that I thought really popped with the processing.

The third is a crop where the people in the front really provide a good contrast to the foggy background. I also removed the post in Snapseed.

 

[mjcmt]

 

[gk fotografie]

In the film age I've printed tens of thousands of photos on Agfa Portriga Rapid B&W paper and long time I've searched for a shade for digital images that comes somewhat close to this formidable and never equaled photo paper, the results are going in the right direction, but it's not quite Portriga Rapid, yet. Combination of a "standard" black/white conversion via PaintNet and 2nd layer (value 125/255) in sepia tone.

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[johngpt]

I've just put away all my external hard drives on which I keep originals and backups, so all I have right now is the finished version of this.
I had converted the original color to b/w using a gradient map in Ps. The final version is available because it is already posted to Flickr.

Then I blended five (I think) layers of differing yellows, oranges, and red set to color blend mode and varying opacities to create a toning which wasn't available by just pushing a button. Because all these layers blend to create one tone, it's still technically a monochrome image.

Next week I'll come back to show the original color, the image with just the gradient map available, and the final version. I've put all the drives away as we've just learned our son is getting married this Saturday and She Who Must Be Obeyed needs me helping out and not being distracted.


autumn leaves

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[johngpt]

Oh, and I used luminosity masking and the Blend If dialog to limit how much the toning influenced the brightest pixels.

 

[zulu42]

Used split toning in LR to add different shades of color to the highlights and shadows

And another subtle change if you can spot it

 

[smithdan]

Pinhole image from a few years back. Homemade pinhole on a K1000 body cap, HP5 inside. Subtle tint from Color Efex user defined split toner.

 

[waday]

Pinhole image from a few years back. Homemade pinhole on a K1000 body cap, HP5 inside. Subtle tint from Color Efex user defined split toner.

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Wow, that is subtle but really changes the image!

 

[smithdan]

Pinhole image from a few years back. Homemade pinhole on a K1000 body cap, HP5 inside. Subtle tint from Color Efex user defined split toner.

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Wow, that is subtle but really changes the image!

Thanks Wade. I too was surprised how the tint added dimension. Thanks to gk as well for suggesting this week's challenge, a chance to try stuff that I don't usually do.

 

[gk fotografie]

GIMP sepia toning (I just pushed the "sepia" button)
Actually this color reminds me very much of the sepia-effect of photos from the period 1910 - 1940 you see in museums, books and catalogs.
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[gk fotografie]

Following @johngpt I've taken a different path than the 'standard sepia conversion' and opened the red and yellow filter for 100%, in combination with the gray tones from the (converted) b&w photo this produces a special kind of sepia toning.
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(detail from Padrăo dos descobrimentos, Lisbon, Portugal)