This tutorial will show you how to transform a standard color photo into a mix of colors, black and white and sepia in a fast and easy process.

Start with your original and add an adjustment layer of channel mixer.

Layer —> New adjustment layer —> Channel mixer.

Choose ‘monochrome’ and play with the sliders until you are happy with the black and white version.This gives you more options than a plain desaturation with CRTL+SHIFT+U .For portraits I personally like the blue channel most quite often.I let the total set to 100.

Change the ‘opacity’ of this layer to 50 %.You can re-adjust to personal taste later.

Now come the sepia tones.

go to Layer —> New adjustment layer —> Hue/Saturation.

check ‘Colorize’ and add your wished sepia values.I tend to use 30 Hue and 20 Saturation as values.

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