Digital Toning

[RalphLambrecht]

What is your preferred method to simulate analog toning methods in Photoshop?

 

[clay]

I prefer converting monochrome files to RGB and then using a curves adjustment to slightly modify each channel. It allows you to easily split tone images and if you have a good color managed workflow, the result can be printed out on your color printer. When I am in a hurry, I will use the Colorbyte RIP's toning sliders or the Epson ABW mode to print a monochrome image.

 

[jeffreyg]

There is a PS plug-in from Pixel Genius called PhotoKit that has some great features (approximately 140) including toning. They are very easy to use and control. They automatically form an adjustment layer and can be adjusted with the fill slider as well as layered one over the other. The website has rollover examples and it is available in a trial form as well.

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[RalphLambrecht]

Thanks, I'll try clay's method, because I like to work without plug-ins. But thanks for the proposal.

 

[Bob Carnie]

I PS I use Clays method or go into Colour Balance and give different hues for shadow, mid and highlight.

I do like Lightrooms highlight and shadow toning method and will use that as well.

 

[R Shaffer]

I'm a toning curve guy too. I especially like Ken Lee's Bronze Balance & Denny Wagner's Platinum curves. I also use Silver Efex Pro & LR toning sliders.

 

[donbga]

I'm a toning curve guy too. I especially like Ken Lee's Bronze Balance & Denny Wagner's Platinum curves. I also use Silver Efex Pro & LR toning sliders.

Silver Efex Pro and LR are my favs though I really prefer Nik SEP.

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Don

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I'm a toning curve guy too. I especially like Ken Lee's Bronze Balance & Denny Wagner's Platinum curves. ...

Where do I find these?

 

[donbga]

I'm a toning curve guy too. I especially like Ken Lee's Bronze Balance & Denny Wagner's Platinum curves. I also use Silver Efex Pro & LR toning sliders.

Well for what it's worth here is a small sampling of my own work featuring faux palladium toning. Rather than scan actual prints which show up fuzzy I just took the faux root.

Alternative Visions

This is a very old web page I created years ago to share with a couple of people. The problem now is I can't recall my PS settings I used to "tone" the images.

At any rate this page will be up for a little longer but will disappear soon after ATT reorganizes their service.

I think Michael Mutmansky had one of the best faux work of his gum over palladium prints. I think I am correct stating the images on his former website were not scans of actual prints, but I've been known to be wrong more than once!

Don

Don

 

[R Shaffer]

Where do I find these?

I sent them to you in an email to the address you have listed over on APUG.

I acquired them off the net years ago when I learned the method. Can't for the life of me remember the photographers name who had the tutorial, but it was a great site.

 

[Jeremy]

Well for what it's worth here is a small sampling of my own work featuring faux palladium toning. Rather than scan actual prints which show up fuzzy I just took the faux root.

Alternative Visions

This is a very old web page I created years ago to share with a couple of people. The problem now is I can't recall my PS settings I used to "tone" the images.

At any rate this page will be up for a little longer but will disappear soon after ATT reorganizes their service.

I think Michael Mutmansky had one of the best faux work of his gum over palladium prints. I think I am correct stating the images on his former website were not scans of actual prints, but I've been known to be wrong more than once!

Don

Don,

I have a pt/pd print of the very first image on that page and said digital image pales in comparison to the print!

 

[donbga]

I sent them to you in an email to the address you have listed over on APUG.

I acquired them off the net years ago when I learned the method. Can't for the life of me remember the photographers name who had the tutorial, but it was a great site.

Can you share?

Thanks,

Don

 

[R Shaffer]

Well for what it's worth here is a small sampling of my own work featuring faux palladium toning. Rather than scan actual prints which show up fuzzy I just took the faux root.

Alternative Visions

This is a very old web page I created years ago to share with a couple of people. The problem now is I can't recall my PS settings I used to "tone" the images.

At any rate this page will be up for a little longer but will disappear soon after ATT reorganizes their service.

I think Michael Mutmansky had one of the best faux work of his gum over palladium prints. I think I am correct stating the images on his former website were not scans of actual prints, but I've been known to be wrong more than once!

Don

Don

Those are great images and I like the toning. Slightly warmer shadows than the curves I use. I would agree that copies of pt/pd prints rarely do the prints any justice.

 

[R Shaffer]

Can you share?

Thanks,

Don

Sent them to you via the email.

I can't find a place here on DPUG post files. If there is one I'll put them there too.

 

[R Shaffer]

OK. I attached a zip file with a bunch of toning curves.

 

[Joe Lipka]

When I was toning in Photoshop, I used Russell Preston Brown's toning action that's pretty slick. I now do my toning in Lightroom. It has a really nice split toning function in the develop module that is very nice and works with sliders. All the recent photos on my web site were toned in Lightroom.

 

[donbga]

Don,

I have a pt/pd print of the very first image on that page and said digital image pales in comparison to the print!

Unfortunately that's usually the case!

Don

 

[donbga]

Sent them to you via the email.

I can't find a place here on DPUG post files. If there is one I'll put them there too.

Thanks Robert I received your e-mail, found in my junk mail folder.

 

[titrisol]

In GIMP there si something called sample-colorize in which you have a gradient which comes from a real toned print and then you appoly it to your BW image
Is there something similar in PS?

 

[wfe]

I like Clay's methods and I also like Silver Efex Pro. I also use Epson's ABW when printing. I think it's important to use what works for you and the type of images you are producing along with the desired results.