Sepia Antique

On July 23, 2008 · 0 Comments

Sepia Antique
In Adobe Elements 4 or 5, is there a way to change color photos to sepia.?

I want to change a series of color photos to sepia to create an "antique" effect. I bought Elements 4.0 for this purpose on the (bad) advice of a computer store salesman. Today, I downloaded Elements 5.0 as a trial. Thought I might get there in 5.0 from first converting to black and white, but haven't been able to do so with either layers or filters. I read a reference from Barbara Brundage's book suggesting black and white could be "tinted," However, using the B&W color options sure doesn't produce anything. Does anyone know if there's a way to accomlish this (short of Photoshop 7 which I'm sure not gonna buy)?

After the image is Black and White, open up the Hue/Saturation option and click on the "Colorize" box. Then choose a shade of brown to get a good sepia look. You can also play with the Levels to get it to look older and even a little washed out.