Hi Deen, You didn¹t tell which version of PS you are using. If it's one of the last, don't use the desaturate command. Instead : Go to Image/Adjustment/channel mixer. There check the monochrome little box at the left bottom. Then play with the color slides in order to add the hue you want. Before going to the channel mixer, you can also add a Hue Saturation adjustment layer. This would allow you to play with your picture, as if you were adding B&W filters. I don't understand why you'd get a rainbow fringe. But it may be caused by the digital camera adding some false color fringe. This is not uncommon. With the Canon you can test for that kind of false colors if you shoot in strong backlights. I don't know how the Finepix S2 performs and whether it has that kind of problem. Also did you sharpen your picture after making the conversion to B&W ? It may create some artifact at the fringes and enhance some problems previously there. Look carefully at your pictures when it is at it actual size. May be that you'd get a clue as to what is going on if you check a strong backlighted fringe at each of your step in the workflow.. Le 21.6.2003 10:08, «?Deen Hameed?» <hameedd@flashmail.com> a écrit?: > Hi PF'rs, > > I've been having some difficulty with sepia effects, and was wondering if you > could help. > > Basically, I am looking to provide clients with a 'sepia' toned look of a > colour image (usually, portraits, shot with the Finepix S2 Pro, on Standard > Colour, Standard Tone & No Sharpening, Max Resolution and Fine Compression). > > What I do is Desaturate the image (but keep it in RGB mode), and use > Variations to add the tone I want. > > The problem is that there is excessive rainbow-effects wherever there is a > gradation of tones, and I am not able to get rid of them at all. I can make it > disappear with Duotones, but my printer requires the file to be in RGB. > > Ideas, anyone? > > Best regards, > Deen -- Christiane
