The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

21. CREATING DUOTONES AND TINTED IMAGES

ANOTHER WAY YOU can give your images a classic look is by tinting them. This process is very straightforward and opens the door to a lot of creative interpretations of your work. Let’s take a quick tour of how tinting works, and then go over a couple of things you should consider when you are making your own custom looks.

The Split Toning panel allows you to change the tint of your image. It contains two settings: Highlights and Shadows (Figure 21.2). These two settings are responsible for the coloring of the highlight and shadow tones in the picture. When you click on the Highlights swatch you are presented ...