Hi Team, Inspired by Shels and other listers B&W images and recent discussions regarding B&W conversion techniques I decided to see what I could do in PS to emulate the look of old sepia toned images.
I put together a PS action which converts RGB colour images to a B&W image with an edge glow, applies a characteristic curve like older films and tones like sepia. It also provides for dynamic adjustment of the colour filtration. http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/PC214066m.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/PC214066gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/P8111427m.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/P8111427gs.jpg http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/IMGP8928gs.jpg It works best with web sized images up to about 1024 pixels on the longest side), though the variables in the action can easily be changed to work with 6MP images or larger. I've put the action on my web site in case anyone wants to test it out, I'd be keen for some feedback re usefulness or improvements. It was written for CS, I'm not sure how it will work with earlier versions. I put the file up as a .atn and a duplicate renamed .zip, just remove the .zip extension if that's the one your system forces you to DL. If you've never added a new set of actions before just place the .atn file in "?\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Presets\Photoshop Actions" then open PS, open the action tab and go to "load actions", select the file and it should be available in the actions list. http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/Phun_with_PS.atn http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/temp/Phun_with_PS.atn.zip Layers are used to control effects: The opacity of the "Bright edge glow adjustment" layer controls the degree of edge glow. (To work with larger images the "gaussian blur radius would need to be increased in the action) The curve control points on the "Film response curve layer" can be altered to modify the contrast curve of the "film", the bright areas are clipped on purpose (otherwise the sepia filter isn't as effective) Adjusting the hue slider in the "colour filter adjust" layer alters the colour response of the desaturation layer, simply adjust this control until the desired image contrast is achieved. The "Desaturate" layer needs no adjustment. The sepia saturation can be adjusted using the density slider in the "Sepia effect" later. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
