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168 APPLYING | SPLIT TONING

CHANGING TONES

Monochrome photos do not need to be made purely to you which colors you use. Complementary
of shades of gray—photographers began to tone colors work well, with the warmer color, such as
black and white photos soon after photography was yellow-orange, used for the highlights and the cooler
invented. Simple toning adds one color to a photo; one, such as blue, for the shadows. This mimics the
split toning adds two—one to the highlighted areas way that shadows tend to be cooler in color than
of the photo, and the other to the shadows. It is up brightly lit areas of a scene.

Basic Auto
Exposure 0.00
Contrast -50
ASSESS YOUR PHOTO LOWER THE CONTRAST CONVERT THE IMAGE
Start with a color image suitable Use the Contrast slider in In Lightroom, on the Basic panel,
for conversion to black and white. Split Lightroom’s Basic panel, Develop module, Treatment section, change Color to Black
toning can also be used on color photos to slightly lower the contrast so there is & White.
that you will keep in color. enough detail in the highlights and shadow.

Split Toning Split Toning
Highlights Shadow
Split Toning
Hue 25 Hue 224
Saturation 35 Saturation 53 Balance +15

APPLY THE HIGHLIGHTS TONE APPLY THE SHADOW TONE ADJUST THE BALANCE
Starting with Highlights, use the Adjust the Shadow Hue and Balance the strength of the colors
Hue slider of the Split Toning tool to alter Saturation sliders, picking a color that in the highlights and shadows. Pull the
the color tone, and the Saturation tool to complements the one you chose for slider to the right to favor the highlights
vary the intensity of the color. the Highlights (see p.41). and to the left to favor the shadows.

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