Sepia misty trees

Sepia misty trees, originally uploaded by foto-art.

This was an opportunistic shot taken one misty morning in July on my way to work at about 6:30 in the morning...I ran around like an idiot taking about ten photos before I had to dash off to work. Misty images like this lend themselves to a sepia effect. This was originally a colour digital image. I went into Photoshop, opened the file and went into Image/Mode and clicked on Greyscale. This turned it into a black and white image. I probably then went into Image/Auto Contrast to see if this improved the image. I then went back into Image/Mode and clicked on RGB. This turned it back into a colour image though in appearance it remained black and white. I then went into Image/Adjust/Colour Balance. You can get a number of sepia effects by moving the sliders. Try 0 -50 -79. Or try +31 -34 -79. This is just one way of producing a sepia effect in Photoshop, and a quick one. Once I was happy with the effect, I clicked on File/Save As and gave the file a new name and saved it as a JPEG. This means that I still had the original file to play with.