Sepia in Photoshop. Several ways how to achieve it

Surely everyone has a home photo archive, where there are old black and white (or, more accurately, brown-white) pictures of great-grandmothers. This effect was very typical for photographs of those times, and it was achieved using sepia powder. This substance was made from so-called ink bags of mollusks - squid and cuttlefish. These bags were dried, very finely grinded, after which the resulting powder was boiled in an alkaline solution. Actually, the very word "sepia" from Ancient Greek is translated as "cuttlefish".

Today, there is no longer any need to dry innocent shellfish to extract paint, as modern technology makes it easy and easy to make a sepia effect in Photoshop. It is not difficult. You only need to carefully follow any of the instructions below.

Method one. First of all, select any photo for the experiment and open it in Photoshop. The picture can be either color or black and white. If you selected a color photo, move it to b / w as follows: on the top menu bar click on "Image" (or Image, if the editor is not Russified). In the drop-down menu, move the cursor to the word "Correction" (or Ajustiments), and in the additional menu that appears, click on "Hue / Saturation" (or Hue / Saturation). In the appeared window find the "Presets" tab (or Preset) and in it - the "Sepia" setting (or Sepia). If you have Photoshop version CS3, then in this box you need to tick off the word "Toning", then use the sliders to get the desired sepia tone.

The next way that you get sepia in Photoshop is as follows: after opening a photo in this editor, you need to go to "Layers" (or Layer), and then follow the route "New adjustment layer" (or New adjustment layer). Here, in the "Photo Filter" option, select sepia and adjust the slider to achieve the desired effect. As you can see, the work in Photoshop is not so complicated, but very interesting.

Here's another option: you need to enter the "Image" (or Image), found in the drop-down menu "Correction" (or Ajustments), where you select "Black and White" (or Black & Wite). Opposite the "Shade" (Tint), tick and adjust in the slider window until we get the desired result. After that, click OK and we can save the picture.

But that's not all the ways that sepia is achieved in Photoshop. It is also possible: in the Image, find the option "Correction", and in it - "Variations" (or Variations). Make sure that you have selected "Halftone" (or Midtones) in the opened window. Next, to get high-quality sepia in Photoshop, move the slider "Thin / Coarse" (or Fine / Coarse) to the left, literally one division or a little more. One time you need to click on "Yellow" (or Yellow) and "Red" (or Red) to add these colors to the middle tones of the image opened in the editor.

As you can see, sepia in Photoshop is done very easily and simply. Now you can add any old-time effect to any picture. Also you can make the resulting photo more or less contrast, give it brightness or subtract it. This is achieved by the following way: in the "Image" click on "Brightness / Contrast", and then, with the help of sliders, we achieve optimal effects. When you are satisfied with the result, click "Yes", then save the photo under a new name (so as not to erase the color original).