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Photography - Post-Production/Photo-Editing (Photoshop): Brown Tone

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    Typically a straight monochrome image has a cool color cast to it...a bit cold and flat. To warm things up and get rich deep images, I apply a Brown Tone. Subtlety is the keyword when applying Brown Tone, for me it’s more a “did he?...didn’t she?” proposition, not to be confused with Sepia tone which is obvious and more distinctively red. If you read Lenswork magazine, the publisher Brooks Jensen is a strong advocate of Brown Tone. For variety I Green Tone, Gold Tone etc.—apply the principle as suits your creative juices—monochrome first, then tone.

    In Photoshop make a new layer, set the layer mode to Color, then fill with something like #583B1C with a layer Opacity of 7-14%. YMMV so pick a color and intensity that suits your particular sensibilities. Also, I may pick out the whites on the Color layer mask. In Lightroom I apply a Split Toning of 48 and 4 to the Shadows “only”.

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