Photoshop tutorial:A Guide to Guides 09: Altering Color & Lighting, Converting Grayscale, Black & White Effects

Altering Color & Lighting, Converting Grayscale, Black & White Effects

Tutorials for altering the color and lighting of a photo for creative effects and adding drama or interest. Includes techniques for colorizing, monochrome tinting, sepia toning, creating duotones, converting to black & white, and other manipulated color and light effects.
Convert Color Photos to Black and White with Photoshop – Video
There’s something special about the classic look of black and white photos. Learn how to convert your color pictures into black and white using Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop Photo Filter
[Video Tutorial] It’s all too common for our photos to seem great if not for an unflattering yellow, green, or other tint. With Adobe Photoshop’s Photo Filter, you can adjust the color of your digital pictures, reconciling them with the memories they document.
Adobe Photoshop Sepia Effect
[Video Tutorial] There’s a quaint and beautiful look to older, black-and-white photos. With Adobe Photoshop, you can mimic that sepia-toned, antiqued appearance for your images in just a few easy steps.
How To Apply a Sepia Tone to a Photo
Step-by-step instructions for tinting a photo with a sepia tone in Photoshop.
Coloring Photos
One technique for adding color to faded or grayscale photos. Uses quick mask mode and adjustment layers.
Full Moon
Apply mighty night visions to your daylight pics.
Light Rays in Adobe Photoshop CS
“You want to create a stained glass effect in Photoshop, but the built-in Stained Glass filter doesn’t exactly produce the sophisticated look you’re going for. Maybe you want a little more detail in the glass segments in the effect; maybe you want light rays streaming through the glass.”
Luminosity Masks and Sepia Toning
This two-part tutorial discusses luminosity masks and how they can help produce handsome sepia tones.
Sepia Toning
In photo work, it seems as if we are always trying to make the old new again, and the new old. In this tutorial, we will give that 1895 sepia look to a new photo.