Simple Sepia

**molucca** · 12 October 2007, 03:29 PM

A sepia from a color image. Select the image and click on a color on the color line and set the dark color. Sepias I have seen are in the red Hues. Click on a second color and set the light color. The image appears dark. Select the dark image and open the bitmap Gallery. Select the color image from the Gallery and hit transparent. Make a bitmap copy in true color.

You can adjust the colors as needed.

Rich

**David O'Neil** · 13 October 2007, 01:30 AM

You can do close to the same thing using only transparencies.

**steve.ledger** · 13 October 2007, 02:09 AM

I've been colourising photo's simply by selecting the photo then clicking a CMYK colour from the colour line.

Seems to work for my purposes..

**molucca** · 13 October 2007, 02:44 PM

This was setting the lighter shades and leaving the black alone in the second image. Setting the lighter shades colorizes more than I want, but BMT clears the white areas. The third image is changing the light and dark.

Rich

**Judi A** · 13 October 2007, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by molucca

This was setting the lighter shades and leaving the black alone in the second image. Setting the lighter shades colorizes more than I want, but BMT clears the white areas. The third image is changing the light and dark.

Rich

What is BMT ?? You are always making up acronyms and I never know what you are taking about.

**molucca** · 13 October 2007, 04:52 PM

Judi,

Bitmap transparency is where you use an image from the bitmap gallery to cause transparency in something selected on screen.

Rich

**Mike Bailey** · 13 October 2007, 05:25 PM

Bitmap transparency

Huh? I thought BMT was "Big Mother Trucker".
I too am often confused by the use of acronyms.

How about BMT= Beyond Mental Telepathy.

**handrawn** · 13 October 2007, 05:50 PM

I knew what you meant Rich - bitmap transparencies being something you're very good with - sure given me a few good tips along the way

**molucca** · 14 October 2007, 12:13 AM

Steve,

What do you think about this being a dynamic mask. It can be reapplied with a different image, has position handles and profile adjustment. I always thought it needed to be grayscale, but it doesn't.

Rich

**gwpriester** · 14 October 2007, 01:29 AM

I think you are overthinking this.

First of all, sepia is not red, it is more a yellowish orangish brown (sepia).

Select the photo. Right click on a dark sepia type color or change the Outline color to something similar.

If you need more depth to the colors, clone the bitmap and apply a Flat, Stained Glass transparency.

Gary