Photoshop Elements Tutorial on How to Create a Two Tone Picture
Photoshop Elements is one of the best consumer-driven software that support easy-to-use features to produce a ten-on-ten perfect picture.
This software has given immense boost to an artist to create and experiment with various features to carve a larger than life picture.
Its easy to use features have made challenging tasks like correcting a blemished picture, changing the back ground, enhancing the resolution of the picture and now creating two different tones in one single picture, a child's play.
Bringing forth its new feature of creating two tones in a single picture, the software allows access to all possible experiments to make your picture perfect.
The technique of creating two tones in one picture involves the conversion of a colored picture into black and white with a unique sepia effect.
This effect enhances the appeal of your picture by rendering it an old classic look.
To transform your picture into a two toned black and white picture, follow the below pointers: First and foremost method of changing the tone of your colored picture to black and white is by using the easy-to-access hue and saturation layer method.
This method completely de-saturates all the livid colors in your picture and transforms it into a colorless black and white picture.
Now, after acquiring the desired picture, it is advisable to create a duplicate background and name it accordingly.
Next, you have to separate the shadows and highlights from your picture.
For this, go to the layers pallet and click on "create new fill" to select "Threshold".
Selecting 'Threshold' will transform your picture into black and white.
You will notice that an adjustment slider has also opened up.
Now on the slider, keep changing your picture until you are satisfied with the separation of black and white quotient in the picture.
Now, you have to create around two hue and saturation layers.
These will be two pictures, one being the inverse of the first one.
Then click on the 'magic wand' tool to check if the tolerance is 100 percent.
Now select the entire white portion on the picture by clicking on any white portion in your image.
You can blend this white color a bit for better effects by selecting the option, "Feather" and converting its radius to 15 pixels.
Now when you select the option, "create a new fill", you will observe that a new layer opens up containing the mask which absolutely resembles your picture.
After this, save this new layer by clicking 'Ok' and rename this new layer as Highlights.
Select the option, "magic wand" for the last time and this time clicking on the black colored area in the picture.
You can feather selection one more time to build another saturation layer.
Click on 'Ok' and save this new layer as 'shadows'.
As the last step, click on the 'Threshold' layer to turn it off, to open the adjustment layer named, 'Highlights'.
Select the color box and adjust its hues until you are happy.
Fix the saturation as well.
Repeat the same steps for Shadow layer as well.
You will meet the desired results.
This software has given immense boost to an artist to create and experiment with various features to carve a larger than life picture.
Its easy to use features have made challenging tasks like correcting a blemished picture, changing the back ground, enhancing the resolution of the picture and now creating two different tones in one single picture, a child's play.
Bringing forth its new feature of creating two tones in a single picture, the software allows access to all possible experiments to make your picture perfect.
The technique of creating two tones in one picture involves the conversion of a colored picture into black and white with a unique sepia effect.
This effect enhances the appeal of your picture by rendering it an old classic look.
To transform your picture into a two toned black and white picture, follow the below pointers: First and foremost method of changing the tone of your colored picture to black and white is by using the easy-to-access hue and saturation layer method.
This method completely de-saturates all the livid colors in your picture and transforms it into a colorless black and white picture.
Now, after acquiring the desired picture, it is advisable to create a duplicate background and name it accordingly.
Next, you have to separate the shadows and highlights from your picture.
For this, go to the layers pallet and click on "create new fill" to select "Threshold".
Selecting 'Threshold' will transform your picture into black and white.
You will notice that an adjustment slider has also opened up.
Now on the slider, keep changing your picture until you are satisfied with the separation of black and white quotient in the picture.
Now, you have to create around two hue and saturation layers.
These will be two pictures, one being the inverse of the first one.
Then click on the 'magic wand' tool to check if the tolerance is 100 percent.
Now select the entire white portion on the picture by clicking on any white portion in your image.
You can blend this white color a bit for better effects by selecting the option, "Feather" and converting its radius to 15 pixels.
Now when you select the option, "create a new fill", you will observe that a new layer opens up containing the mask which absolutely resembles your picture.
After this, save this new layer by clicking 'Ok' and rename this new layer as Highlights.
Select the option, "magic wand" for the last time and this time clicking on the black colored area in the picture.
You can feather selection one more time to build another saturation layer.
Click on 'Ok' and save this new layer as 'shadows'.
As the last step, click on the 'Threshold' layer to turn it off, to open the adjustment layer named, 'Highlights'.
Select the color box and adjust its hues until you are happy.
Fix the saturation as well.
Repeat the same steps for Shadow layer as well.
You will meet the desired results.
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