Photoshop and warmtone paper

Gary Grenell · Jul 31, 2009

So, I am pretty new to photoshop. I've now had my 120 film negs sucessfully scanned and am manipulating them in photoshop. Which Photoshop CS4 tools should I be using if I want to create the effects of a slightly warmtone gelatin silver paper, such as Ilford Multigrade Warmtone FB or Agfa MCC? I'll eventually be using these files to make a Blurb book.

Thanks in advance.

Blackandwhite

Joe Lipka · Jul 31, 2009

For screen display, there are many, many ways to create a toning action. CS4 has a built in sepia toner action. Go to the actions tab, open up default actions and run the sepia toner action.

Google "toning in photoshop" and you should get about 924,000 replies.

Knock yourself out.

Gary Grenell · Jul 31, 2009

Joe Lipka said:
For screen display, there are many, many ways to create a toning action. CS4 has a built in sepia toner action. Go to the actions tab, open up default actions and run the sepia toner action.

Google "toning in photoshop" and you should get about 924,000 replies.

Knock yourself out.

Oh...I think i get what you are saying. You say "for screen display" which I must distinguish from what is actually printed on the inkjet printer. In other words, the "warmtone" effect I want will actually come from the inkjet printing paper I use (just like with analog darkroom process"). These monitor effects are just for "show"....is that it?

donbga · Jul 31, 2009

blackandwhite said:
Oh...I think i get what you are saying. You say "for screen display" which I must distinguish from what is actually printed on the inkjet printer. In other words, the "warmtone" effect I want will actually come from the inkjet printing paper I use (just like with analog darkroom process"). These monitor effects are just for "show"....is that it?

No that isn't correct. A "sepia toned" image onscreen is a color file and printed as a color print.

There are warm tone inkjet papers that can be used also.

Don Bryant

jeffreyg · Aug 4, 2009

Take a look at a Photoshop plugin called PhotoKit from Pixel Genius. It must be used in RGB mode and you can adjust the tone by the amount of fill in the adjustment layer it makes. It has numerous features similar to a darkroom. They have a trial version but once you try it you will probably buy it.
Jeffreyg

wfe · Aug 5, 2009

Silver EfexPro is a third party add on to Photoshop that provides an incredible level of toning control.

donbga · Aug 5, 2009

wfe said:
Silver EfexPro is a third party add on to Photoshop that provides an incredible level of toning control.

I agree I've been using several of the Nik Plugins this summer and I'm very impressed - very powerful tools.

From my comparisons I think Nik Sharpener is a much easier to use product than Photo Kit and it certainly works just as well or better.

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