Sepia With A Splash Of Color

I was out taking pictures of saguaro nearly a year ago just about sundown. Erma, my wife, said something about the landscape looking like a picture that was done in sepia. This triggered a thought that the splash of color pictures might look good in sepia in addition to black and white. So I tried it a bit later and it does give a different twist to the pictures. This of course opens up the door to many kinds of hue changes that might give an interesting twist to many photos. It is simple to create a sepia picture with a splash of color. Almost all the instruction are the same as putting color into black and white. There was an earlier posting called "Splash Of Color" on February 18, 2009. The only differences are as follows. This is using Irfan View software, but of course many photo processing softwares would work the same way.

Step 1 Open the original picture with Irfan View.
Step 2 Select -- image -- effects -- sepia.
Step 3 Save the picture and then paste the "splash of color" just like you did into the black and white.
Step 4 Save with unique name.

Sometimes the paste command in paint acts "weird." A way to circumvent some problems works this way.

P1 Open a blank paint canvas, fill the entire canvas with a bright color, (any color actually, I just like bright)
P2 Paste the sepia picture over the color you just made.
P3 Paste the "splash of color" just like you did into the black and white.
P4 Save with unique name.

By adjusting the color of the shades of gray to create other colors different effects can be created. The number of effects is limited only by your imagination. If one combination does not look good, throw it away and try something else. No matter what you do have fun doing it.