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Rod Allen

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I Know this is a little of the track but it seems to me theres allways someone who knows something about everything in this group.
My good lady is struggling to learn photo shop 6 . Many questions but a current problem is. How do we print (or change)to sepia colour
also when taking a photo of a photo we seem to be losing to much quality.any help very much appreciated. By the way we have the book Sepia is not even in the b..... index!! Rod
 
Rod -

There is no single command for 'Sepia', but here's a rough guide to how to do it:

so you've got a b&w photo like:
pns.jpg


Opening it in Photoshop, go to the menu: Image > Adjust > Colour Balance

One should be able to get Sepia by increasing the Yellow content, and, to a lesser extent, the Magenta content, by dragging the 'dials' left and right, as so:

sepia1.jpg


You'll have to experiment a bit to fit what you like - best to move the Colour Balance window so that you can still see the picture you're working on. You may also want to try adjust the colour balance of the shadows & highlights too (selected directly beneath the colour bars in the colour balance window), but the midtones are the most important.


Other Photoshop 'tricks' - one useful feature, esp. with digital camera or scanned photos/pictures is Image>Adjust>Auto Levels (or Image>Adjust>Auto Contrast if you don't want it changing the colours, but only the contrast), which will make 'faded out' images look better, enhancing the contrast, etc. Sometimes the 'auto contrast' goes too far and you may want to adjust manually under Image>Adjust>Brightness/Contrast

If you have a colour photo you want to change to black&white, select Image>Adjust>Desaturate

The filters are quite fun too - best just to experiment with them one's self though.

hope this helps,
B.
 
p.s. - I'm not sure what you mean about losing resolution taking a photo of a photo. Are you using a camera to take photos of photos? The best way of transfering a photograph to the computer is to use a scanner. If you are using a scanner - you should set the resolution to 300dpi (dots-per-inch) or above for best results.
 
In Photoshop 6 there should be an automatic action under the actions pallette that is called sepia. all you have to do is engage it and it will automatically turn a photo into sepia in a bout 1 second.

Foxy
 
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