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Split toning

A more complex type of toning where two colours are used not one – shadows are tinted with one tone and highlights with another. The results can be very effective, though it’s not always easy to find good-looking toning combinations and split toning doesn’t work with all images.

Edit History: Battery Point Lighthouse in Lightroom Classic

September 12, 2021 by Life after Photoshop

Battery Point lighthouse. Using Lightroom Classic’s Profiles, Color Grading, Post Crop Vignetting and Radial Filter tools to create a strong black and white image.

Filed Under: Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Profiles, Radial mask, Split toning, Toning, Vignette

Dawlish Beach in black and white, with Exposure X5 adjustment layers

May 16, 2020 by Life after Photoshop

Exposure X5

This project turns a regular color RAW file into a strong black and white image in Exposure X5. It uses a number of different tools so it’s a good chance to see how these work and how they can be used together. It’s also a good example the kind of image which works well in […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Adjustment layer, Black and white, Borders and frames, Curves, LUTs, Split toning

Montacute House in moody monochrome with split toning

August 2, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

What is the mood you’re trying to capture? For his image of an Elizabethan country house, I wanted and sombre and forbidding look, and this required black and white, some dodging and burning and subtle toning.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Dodging and burning, LUTs, Split toning

Can you really take proper pictures with a smartphone?

February 11, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Well, I actually think you can. I like taking pictures with my iPhone. It’s partly a practical thing, as it’s the camera I always have with me. More than that, though, it makes me see things differently. I see compositions, shapes, light and shadow in a way that I might not when looking through a […]

Filed Under: Capture One, General, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, DNG, Graduated filters, HEIF format, Mobile photography, Split toning

Split toning explained

January 3, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Split toning

Split toning can give your black and white photos depth and atmosphere and can also be used for traditional single-tone effects.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, GeneralTagged With: Split toning

How to use the Lightroom Split Toning feature

October 22, 2013 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom Split Toning tools

Split toning is a more advanced variation on the old technique of toning. It applies a different coloured tone to the shadows and the highlights in the picture, producing an interesting graded colour effect. It’s often used to give images a subtle, ‘fine art’ look, but it’s not always easy to get right. Split toning […]

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Black and white, Split toning, Toning

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