Article
Article · Thoughts on the Craft of Fine Art Photography
The Psychology and Aesthetics of a Toned Monochrome Print
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Advanced
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2020
About this lesson
A fine-art photographer with decades of darkroom experience explains selenium toning chemistry and its 'eggplant' shadow color shift, then gives the exact digital split-toning settings (saturation and hue values, shadow/highlight balance) to simulate the effect in Lightroom.
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