sepia / wild west tutorial, would love some help.... • Non-Gaming • Photography • Eurogamer.net

beachedvinyl 11 Apr 2006 19:45:46 318 posts
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OK guys, hope you can help with this one. I and mrs beached help out at the local youth club and there's an away weekend happening over this weekend. I foolishly volunteered to run a photography workshop and will be taking my GR digital, tripod, laptop with full PS & printer. The weekend has a wild west theme, or at least thats the fancy dress for the sat night disco.

So anyway, I thought a good idea would be to get them to take portraits, and then on the lappy, turn them into wild west, 1800 style sepia prints.

Problem is I'm a photoshop noob. Can follow instructions in my scott kelby OK, but don't have any feel for the software yet.

So can anyone lay down some step by step instructions on how best to turn a bunch of over excited yoot into authentic texan rangers in less than 10 easy moves?

Salaman 11 Apr 2006 19:47:23 24,162 posts
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Select Sepia on your camera so they come out like that to start with?

Mine is a fairly cheap and small digicam and it has the option.
It might pay to break out the manual and double check for yours.

Edited by Salaman at 19:47:26 11-04-2006

beachedvinyl 11 Apr 2006 19:49:23 318 posts
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no, definitely no pre set mode. also want them to learn a little about manipulating images

Salaman 11 Apr 2006 19:52:15 24,162 posts
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I know absolutely nothing about Photoshop.
But this may help.

Freek 11 Apr 2006 19:56:22 7,682 posts
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Photoshop TV to the rescue. Episode 20 has a step by step tutorial how to do it.

Weekly free to downlaod video cast about Photoshop and photography.

Edited by Freek at 19:57:07 11-04-2006

beachedvinyl 11 Apr 2006 19:58:58 318 posts
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all excellent, thanks. will go home and experiment.

otto - um, CS i think. its on the wife's lappy - she got the full adobe package frrebie when she retrained as a teacher. not used it much.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Apply a gradient map, using a brown tone. See here for an example.

otto Moderator 28 May 2007 11:16:19 49,322 posts
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Which version of PS, by the way? If it's CS or CS2 you could also get them to convert the image to monochrome, and then apply the sepia 'Photo Filter' under image adjustments.