Opinion on sepia treatment (Cambodia)

[Willy wombat]

Im thinking about doing a sepia treatment for the majority of shots I took in Cambodia in December. I have tested the treatment on a few images. Interested in your thoughts on colour, darkness, etc.
Cheers WW

[colin_12]

I think that the fig roots look a little too white in #1. Plastic looking comes to mind. Its a weird effect for me anyway.
#2 looks good.
Regards Colin

[Reschsmooth]

I think both look good, although, upon reflection, perhaps toning down the contrast in no 1 would make the roots look less artificial.

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[lukeo]

Well not that I have as much experiance as most here, but I figure any reply is a good reply when asking for CC so long as it's honest.

I am guessing you are going for the antique/old look? Number 2 hits it on the head for me. Number 1 not sure if its the photo or not but I don't like it as much.

Have you considered adding a film grain effect to these? The shadow/highlight tool in photoshop could also be useful to you. Had a quick play with adding noise in photoshop, the Noise filter set to Gaussian and Monochromatic with a setting of 5% was pleasing to my eyes at least.

[Willy wombat]

Well not that I have as much experiance as most here, but I figure any reply is a good reply when asking for CC so long as it's honest.

I am guessing you are going for the antique/old look? Number 2 hits it on the head for me. Number 1 not sure if its the photo or not but I don't like it as much.

Have you considered adding a film grain effect to these? The shadow/highlight tool in photoshop could also be useful to you. Had a quick play with adding noise in photoshop, the Noise filter set to Gaussian and Monochromatic with a setting of 5% was pleasing to my eyes at least.

Thanks for those tips Lukeo, I will look into adding grain, etc.

Cheers
Steve

[Matt. K]

Willy
A little known feature of Photoshop....Adobe contracted 2 master printers to come up with some nice tones for B&W images. To use them....convert your image to B&W using your favourite method. Then convert it to greyscale by....IMAGE ADJUSTMENT/MODE /GREYSCALE....then go back to ADJUSTMENTS/MODE DUOTONE and play around with the brown tones that can be loaded from that menu. I'm not saying they are better than yours but they are more subtle.
For your present tones...they look a tad too yellow to me. Try IMAGE ADJUSTMENTS/HUE SATURATION .....and adjust the hue until you get a more bronze colour. Hope this is helpful.

[terminator]

Thanks Matt.

These presets are fantasic and will save me a lot of time.

I notice though that you cannot use them on a separate layer to adjust opacity etc. (if you dont want to use the curves adjustments).

Have to convert back to RGB and use a hue saturation adjustment layer.

Regards,