Toning for the MM?

[dant]

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Does the in camera toning settings have any effect on the raw files with the MM or just the jpegs?

[jaapv]

Just the JPGs

[tobey bilek]

Photoshop- when in B&W mode use color picker to find a color you like, sepia, various browns, various blues. Apply color with a color to transparent gradient. The darks will tone fully, midtones less, and highlight not at all. Real toners work in this manner. Dyes evenly color and look poor.

 

A camera could never do this for you.

[250swb]

There are a couple of other ways to tone an image if it is the .dng>TIFF you want to work on and not a camera generated JPEG.

 

In Photoshop convert the image to 8 bit Greyscale, Mode>Greyscale>8bit, then the option of Duotone becomes available, Mode>Duotone, and via the drop down menu this gives a large selection of preset duo-tone, tri-tone, and quad-tone, options, all of which are modifiable.

 

The other way is in Silver Efex, so convert your default Greyscale MM file into 16bit RGB and Silver Efex offers both a range of presets or full user control, but you are limited to general overall toning or duotone, it can't do tri-tone.

 

Steve

[gjames9142]

For what it's worth, I use the split-toning sliders in LR, at 1 for saturation in shadows and highlights. With Canson Baryta Infinity, I find it gives the effect of selenium when used to reinforce blacks, plus a more pleasing but not really warm tone.