Re: Sepia Tone Once you've turned the image to RGB color mode, and followed Harry's
instructions about colorizing, you'll have a pretty good Sepia effect.
It will still look slightly flat though, unlike a real aging Sepia
print.
To see the difference, scroll to the bottom of this page, and on the
left there is a real sepia print, and on the right, what the Photoshop
generated version would look like.
http://www.easyelements.com/what-is-sepia.html
If you want to give it slightly more 'body' like the image on the left,
then try adding a new layer, and filling it with the Clouds filter, or
the Intensified Clouds filter (Accessed by holding Alt when you click
the Clouds Filter menu option). You'll want put two very similar
colours in your palette beforehand, sampled from the Sepia image, so it
looks similar to parchment.
Then change the opacity of the Clouds layer to really low, probably
less than 10%, so it is really subtle. You can even play with the
Levels control a little if the clouds havn't got enough depth. That
should give you the kind of varied look that implies age, and not just
a computer generated 'perfect' image.
Hope that helps!
Robert Redwood
www.easyelements.com
Photoshop Elements Expert Advice
Robert Redwood - www.easyelements.com
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