Split Tone Effects with GIMP and Pixelmator

Split Toning is an effect for creatively tinting your photos in a subtle way. When you spit tone, instead of applying a single color tint to a monochrome photo, you apply different color tints to the highlights and shadows, which is a bit more interesting than simple black and white or single-color tinting effects.

Ian's latest tutorials show you how to create a split tone effect using color balance in Pixelmator, and two different methods for GIMP--using color balance and gradient maps. With some experimentation, you'll likely be able to adapt these split toning techniques for whatever photo editor you use.

• How to Split Tone in Pixelmator
• Split Tone With Color Balance in GIMP
• Split Tone With Gradient Map in GIMP