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Adjusting the toning of your image

Adjusting the toning of your image

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Adjusting the toning of your image

- [Instructor] Okay, so let's talk for a moment about tinting or toning your monochromatic image. The words mean something slightly different in a digital workflow than they did in the chemical or film workflow. But for the sake of this, I'll use them interchangeably. I'll use them to describe adding color to our black and white image. And so, here's an image that we're just really quickly going to use a black and white adjustment layer on, and that looks fine. Let's say we wanted to add a tone to it. We could come in here to tint. We've got this little basic checkbox. It will take you into the color picker here. And by default, it lands right here, and we can choose any different tone, strong as we like, warmer, cooler, less saturated. Pretty straightforward. The other way to do this, and the way I would prefer to do it, is rather than use tint here, I would go ahead and create a black and white adjustment layer,…

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