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Adobe Photoshop Photo Filter
[Video Tutorial] It's all too common for our photos to seem great if not for an unflattering yellow, green, or other tint. With Adobe Photoshop's Photo Filter, you can adjust the color of your digital pictures, reconciling them with the memories they document.

Adobe Photoshop Sepia Effect
[Video Tutorial] There's a quaint and beautiful look to older, black-and-white photos. With Adobe Photoshop, you can mimic that sepia-toned, antiqued appearance for your images in just a few easy steps.

Artistic Colorizing
Paint color onto a grayscale image.

Coloring Photos
One technique for adding color to faded or grayscale photos. Uses quick mask mode and adjustment layers.

Convert Color Photos to Black and White with Photoshop - Video
There's something special about the classic look of black and white photos. Learn how to convert your color pictures into black and white using Adobe Photoshop.

Converting Colour To Monochrome
Using the channel mixer instead of a stright grayscale conversion can give your monochrome images an added punch. Learn how to use the channel mixer for better monochrome conversions.

Duotones
From the author: "The procedure I will show you here is a no-frills, basic way to make duotones which can be printed on your desktop printer, or used on your Web site."

Full Moon
Apply mighty night visions to your daylight pics.

Great Grayscale From Color Photos
Tips for avoiding a "flat" appearance when converting color photos to grayscale.

How To Apply a Sepia Tone to a Photo
Step-by-step instructions for tinting a photo with a sepia tone in Photoshop.

Light Rays in Adobe Photoshop CS
"You want to create a stained glass effect in Photoshop, but the built-in Stained Glass filter doesn't exactly produce the sophisticated look you're going for. Maybe you want a little more detail in the glass segments in the effect; maybe you want light rays streaming through the glass."

Luminosity Masks and Sepia Toning
This two-part tutorial discusses luminosity masks and how they can help produce handsome sepia tones.

Sepia Toning
In photo work, it seems as if we are always trying to make the old new again, and the new old. In this tutorial, we will give that 1895 sepia look to a new photo.

Turning Color into Black & White
Several different techniques you can use to convert your color photos to black and white, each resulting in subtle differences in the final image.