You know what I love most about digital? The easy ability we have to play with our photos and the UNDO button, lol!! I personally love the look of sepia toned photos and used a filter to do it for me before I realized how easy it was to do myself. So today I have a quick tutorial on how to do it! I have 2 different ways, you can play with both if you like and see which one gives you the results you are looking for!
So here we go! Please note that I am using Photoshop Elements 6, but these steps are quite similar in other programs as well. And I know that the images are a little hard to read because they are pretty small, so go ahead and click them for a close-up.
Step 1: Open a photo of your choice and convert it to black and white. An easy way is to go to Enhance –> Adjust Color –> Remove Color.

Step 2: Now that your color is black & white, go back up to Enhance –> Adjust Color –> Color Variations.

Step 3: Click Increase Red once, and Decrease Blue once. If you want, click the lighten button once if your photo is too dark.
And you’re done!

You’ll notice that this photo is REALLY brown. Sometimes it looks okay, sometimes not so much. Personally I don’t like this photo being this brown, I’d prefer a more subtle effect. So here is a second tutorial, this one has a bit more playing room, but is also extremely easy!
Step 1: Open your photo, and then click your adjustment layer button above your layers palette & choose Gradient Map:

Step 2: Choose the option that is black in one corner and white in the other corner (3rd option in on my screen). This will turn your photo b&w:

Step 3: Merge your layers (CTRL+SHIFT+E). Click the adjustment layer button again, this time choose Hue/Saturation. Click the “Colorize” check box, and type in a number between 30 & 35 into the hue box or use the slider. This will give you a gorgeous brown color for your photo:

Step 4: Now you can choose if you would like to leave your photo this way (which a lot of the times is perfect), but play around with the opacity. You can always undo it :). In the photo I used, I used an opacity of 75% which just looked “right” to me:

So there you have it! I hope this tutorial helped you guys! As always, feel free to link us up to show off your layouts or photos using this tutorial! I would love to see them!!
~ Jaedyn ~