Chapter 7. Toning

Toning essentials

Toning is an ideal technique for making both grayscale and plain RGB color images more eye-catching.

When to use toning

Before digital photography, only black and white images could be chemically toned, but today toning can be applied to color images too. The example shown above is an ideal subject for toning, since the amount of color is minimal.

When to use toning

Using the correct color mode

If your image is in Grayscale ...

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