How You Can Create A Two Tone Photo By Using Adobe Elements

By David Peters


Adobe Photoshop Elementsis among the greatest consumer driven software that support easy to use features to create a 10-on-10 perfect photograph. This program has given immense boost to an artist to make and test out different features to carve a larger than life photo. Its easy to use features have made difficult tasks like correcting a blemished photograph, changing the back ground, enhancing the resolution of the photo and now creating two different tones in one single photo, a child's play. Bringing forth its new feature of making 2 tones in just one picture, the application allows access to all possible experiments to make your photograph perfect.

The strategy of creating 2 tones in one picture requires the conversion of a colored picture into black and white with an unique sepia effect. This effect improves the appeal of your picture by rendering it an old classic look. To transform your photograph into a 2 toned black and white picture, follow the below pointers:

First and foremost technique of modifying the tone of your coloured photograph to black&white is by using the easy-to-access hue and saturation layer technique. This technique totally de-saturates all the livid colours in your photo and transforms it into a colorless black and white picture. Now, after acquiring the desired image, it's advisable to make a duplicate background and name it accordingly. Next, you need to separate the shadows and highlights from your image. To do this, go to the layers pallet and then click "create new fill" to choose "Threshold". Selecting 'Threshold' will change your photo into black and white. You'll discover that an adjustment slider has also opened up. Now on the slider, keep changing your image until you are satisfied with the separation of black and white quotient in the photo.

Now, you have to create around 2 hue and saturation lay
First and foremost technique of modifying the tone of your coloured photograph to black&white is by using the easy-to-access hue and saturation layer technique. This technique totally de-saturates all the livid colours in your photo and transforms it into a colorless black and white picture. Now, after acquiring the desired image, it's advisable to make a duplicate background and name it accordingly. Next, you need to separate the shadows and highlights from your image. To do this, go to the layers pallet and then click "create new fill" to choose "Threshold". Selecting 'Threshold' will change your photo into black and white. You'll discover that an adjustment slider has also opened up. Now on the slider, keep changing your image until you are satisfied with the separation of black and white quotient in the photo.

Now, you have to create around 2 hue and saturation layers. These will be two photos, one being the inverse of the first one. Then click the 'magic wand' tool to check if the tolerance is 100 percent. Now choose the entire white portion on the photograph by clicking on any white part in your image. You can blend this white colour a bit for better effects by selecting the option, "Feather" and converting its radius to 15 pixels.

Now when you select the option, "create a new fill", you'll notice that a new layer opens up containing the mask which absolutely resembles your image. Then, save this new layer by clicking 'OK" and rename this new layer as Highlights.

Select the option, "magic wand" for the last time and this time hitting the black colored area in the picture. You may feather selection once again to build another saturation layer. Just click 'Ok' and save this new layer as 'shadows'.

As the last step, click the 'Threshold' layer to turn it off, to open the adjustment layer named, 'Highlights'. Select the colour box and adjust its hues until you're happy. Correct the saturation too. Repeat the same steps for Shadow layer also. You will meet the wanted outcomes.




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