How to do selinium toning?

[Shutterlight]

September 22, 2011 at 9:44 pm

Hi,

Anyone know how to do good selinium toning digitally.
I have Photoshop CS2.
Don’t really want to invest in expensive software just yet.

Gerry.

[Ger 208k]

September 23, 2011 at 7:41 pm

Hi Gerry,
Have you tried using the photo filters in the adjustment layers tab. You could experiment with different combinations of filters/opacity.

Ger.

[Shutterlight]

September 23, 2011 at 8:15 pm

Hi Ger,

Haven’t tried that yet.
Will give it a go.
Thanks for the tip.

Gerry.
PS Like you’re flikr photos – well done.

[Mark]

September 23, 2011 at 8:31 pm

Funny. I’ve been looking for this too since yesterday and not found a good method :)

Seems though that Duotones are the way (actually Quadtones) but being colour blind can’t work out the
correct colour selections… Thats why I love b+w film lol :)

[Shutterlight]

September 24, 2011 at 3:23 pm

Thanks Marks.

I messed around in quads and found a very good selenium toning preset.
So no messing around if your doing large batches and you keep colour consistency.
I’m using it for a batch of wedding pics.

For users of CS2 follow these instructions

Best to do all other edits in raw then save as a Tiff
Save your image with existing name and sel at the end.

Go to mode, click on 8 bit channel
click on grayscale
click on dualtones
click on quadtones
click on pantones – there are lots of options but me one version stood out as easily the best
click the last option (Bl 541 513 5773)
click image, mode and click rgb colour
then brighten the image using curves (found the conversion darkened the image more than I wanted)

Gerry.

[Mark]

September 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm

Excellent Gerry, I’ll give that a go !

Thanks