Photoshop Tutorial - Converting a Colour Image to Sepia Tone

1. Introduction

1.1 Here's a very simple way to Sepia tone your images, just like they used to print them.

1.2 Click here to see the original colour image and click on the original image to return to this page.

1.3 Click here to see the sepia toned image and click on the sepia toned image to return to this page.

1.4 Click here to return to the main Photoshop page.

2. Keystrokes

2.1 File>Open – Navigate to the folder holding the image to be processed and open it.

2.2 Check that the default colours in the toolbox are set for black and white as the foreground and background respectively.

2.3 Copy the 'background' layer and rename it 'sepia tone'.

2.4 Working on the 'sepia tone' layer open up the 'Hue / Saturation' window by selecting Image>Adjustments>Hue / Saturation - tick the colourize box and select, Hue=25, Saturation=27.

2.5 Click Ok.