Sepia tone is a type of digital photo in which the picture appears similar to a traditional black-and-white print toned with sepia. It appears in shades of brown, as opposed to grayscale. 10 MP Nikon D200 and a Nikon film scanner The Canon EOS 350D The Canon PowerShot A95 Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record and capture the image as binary data. ... Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Toning is any chemical process used to modify the color of monochrome photographic prints. ... In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. ...

Digital sepia tones

Sepia can be produced in many digital cameras and camcorders, or it can be produced in the digital darkroom. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... 8mm Camcorder mini-DV Camcorder A camcorder is a portable electronic device (generally a digital camera) for recording images and audio onto a storage device. ... Digital Darkroom is a phrase used to describe all of the software and techniques used in digital photography that have replaced the old darkroom equivilents, such as enlarging, cropping, etc. ...

Many photographers prefer to use software, like Photoshop or The GIMP, because these offer more control over how colorful to make the image, and exactly what hue. There is no single color known as “sepia”—the term covers a range of yellow and brown mixtures. Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. ... Often, the name GIMP is used erroneously for the Gimp-Print printer driver set. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... A yellow Tulip. ... Brown, when used as a general term, is a color which is a dark orange, red or rose, of very low intensity. ...

More sophisticated software tends to implement sepia tones using the duotone feature. Simpler photo-editing software usually has an option to sepia tone an image in one step. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Duotone is a form of printing halftones with two colors of ink, one usually black. ...

• Adobe recommends setting Hue = 27 and Saturation = 21 and checking the Colorize box in the Hue/Saturation filter in Photoshop^[1]
• Microsoft recommends: (a slight modification required)^[2]

 R' = (R × 0.393 + G × 0.769 + B × 0.189) / 1.351f; G' = (R × 0.349 + G × 0.686 + B × 0.168) / 1.203f; B' = (R × 0.272 + G × 0.534 + B × 0.131) / 2.140f; 

The sample photographs below show the process of removing color from a photograph, then applying a conversion to grayscale. The last sample photograph shows the same colored photograph converted to sepia. Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ... Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) published by Adobe Systems. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... In computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample. ...

Color image A Neighborhood Watch notice sign in color File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Grayscale image A Neighborhood Watch notice sign in grayscale File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

Sepia-toned image Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

Sepia tones in pop culture

Sepia-toned images are heavily associated with the 1800s and "that old-time feel." Many photographs of the American Old West were recorded in sepia tones, particularly Edward Weston's photos of Carmel. Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars (1805 - 1815). ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ... Edward Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was an American photographer, and co-founder of Group f/64. ... Carmel may refer to: // Barri del Carmel, district in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Carmel, Indiana, city in Hamilton County, Indiana, United States Carmel, New York, town located in Putnam County, New York, USA Carmel, Western Australia, suburb of Perth, Western Australia Carmel Hamlet, New York, hamlet located in...

The Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz were in sepia tone, until Technicolor takes over in the land of Oz. The Wizard of Oz may refer to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 book by L. Frank Baum, or any of its numerous adaptations, the most famous being the 1939 film version starring Judy Garland. ...

Wings of Desire movie by Wim Wenders is filmed in sepia mostly, to depict that the movie protagonists, invisible angels, lack the usual human senses; when the angels are not present, the movie is shown in full colour. Wings of Desire is the English title of Der Himmel über Berlin, a 1987 film by the German-born director Wim Wenders. ... Ernst Wilhelm (Wim) Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German film director, photographer, and producer. ...

See also

• Sepia (color)
• Monochrome
• Selective color
• Photographic print toning

Sepia is a rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish, and it is also the name of a dark brown-grey color. ... A photograph of a sign in grayscale The same photograph in black and white Monochrome comes from the two Greek words mono (μωνο, meaning one), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning surface or the color of the skin). A monochromatic object has a single color. ... Selective Color is a post processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color. ... Toning is any chemical process used to modify the color of monochrome photographic prints. ...

References

1. ^ How To: Create sepia toned images. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.
2. ^ .NET Matters, Sepia Tone. Retrieved on 2007-03-17.

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External links

• Sepia tone in Photoshop.
• Sepia-toning in Photoshop.
• Sepia-toning in the GIMP.