Hi Everybody,
What RGB values are sepia.
I colored this ancient photo in "sepia".I got a lot of flak from the grandchildren. They claimed that it was too red. However, I thought that it looked washed out when shifted towards yellow.
So what's a realistic "sepia". Phil
The RGB value for sepia is 112, 66, 20 (#704214).
The effect that you have in your old photo looks like a sepia toning effect on a cream paper or on a photo that had aged badly. Newly sepia toned images are usually whiter in the highlights as it's only the black metallic silver that gets transformed to silver sulphide during the toning process. Silver sulphide (Ag2S) is more stable than metallic silver and the toning was often done for archival reasons as well as aesthetics. The amount of the sepia toning can be varied by the time that the print is left in the toning bath.
Here's a scan of a genuine sepia toned print from the 1920s (my mother is the little bridesmaid crouching in the middle of the front row and my great grandmother is standing immediately behind her).
Any one I've seen for a long while has the silver raised on it but It's a cool looking process.
David Milisock said:Any one I've seen for a long while has the silver raised on it but It's a cool looking process.
If all the metallic silver is converted in the toning process that can't happen, but for aesthetic reasons lots of photos aren't completely converted (or are badly processed) so that you get a mix of silver and sulphide.
I'm posting two sepia the first the default from PP
The second one from PSP X9 with the same setting 50 as PP, the *** with PSP you must work sRGB as in PNG it won't embed profiles
Here's one I did just now. Easy-peasy.
a lot of what is judged as sepia toning is really opal type, like above. Adding scratches, which I didn't do, also makes them look a bit more authentic.
David Milisock said:The second one from PSP X9 with the same setting 50 as PP, the *** with PSP you must work sRGB as in PNG it won't embed profiles
It doesn't look like an early sepia print with that contrast range though. This would be closer (PhotoPaint Sepia filter at 50).