Learn Sepia

Sepia toning photographs is one of the most popular and most appealing effects for a photographer. This effect adds an old-fashioned feel to your photos, and also gives a warmth and depth to pictures that black and white does not.

To make a sepia picture on Photoshop, all you have to do is follow these instructions:

1. Open the image in Photoshop.
2. If the image is in color, go to Image > Adjust > Desaturate and skip to step 4.
3. If the image is in grayscale go to Image > Mode > RGB Color.
4. Go to Image > Adjust > Variations.
5. Move the Fine<--> Coarse slider down one notch less than the middle.
6. Click on More Yellow once.
7. Click on More Red once.
8. Click OK.

Here is a picture that I sepia-toned in Photoshop:

If you are using Picasa Software:

1. Open the image in Picasa
2. Go to Effects
3. Click on Sepia

Here is a photo that I sepia-toned in Picasa:

If you have a Flickr account, you can also edit pictures on Picnik.
Above your picture on Flickr, click on "edit photos"
Then:
1. When the Picnik editor opens, click on 'create'
2. Click on 'effects'
3. Scroll down to 'sepia' ~ when you click on it, you can select the sepia tone you like.
4. Click on 'apply' = your picture is now sepia-toned. It is fun to experiment with other effects in Picnik on your sepia picture, like 'boost' and 'lomo-ish' and 'orton-ish.' Picnik is great because it is very user-friendly and it is easy to try a variety of different effects before you save your final image.
5. When you save your picture on Picasa, it will then show up on your Flickr page.


Here is a photo that I sepia-toned in Picnik:

Here are some of my favourite sepia sites:

Sepia Scenes on Blogger (where you post your sepia-toned pictures on your own blog, then link them at this blog)

Sepia Scenes on Flickr (where anyone with a Flickr account can join this group and post one sepia-toned picture each day)

Have fun editing some of your pictures into great sepia scenes!

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