Creating a Toned Black & White Images
Black and white images may be a bit more striking if tones are added to it. Here is how you can do it. The image that we’re going to work on is below
Click on the black & white adjustment layer by clicking the half black/half white button located at the bottom right side of the screen. Modify it to your liking. For this article the settings are
Reds: -25 Yellows: 2 Greens: -87 Cyans: -161 Blues: -106 Magentas: 41
Click at the same half black/half white button again and click Channel Mixer. Tick the monochrome box and modify it to your liking. Make sure it still adds up to 100%. This article uses:
Red: 16 Green: 72 Blue: 12
Under the same half black/half white button, press Brightness & Contrast and change it to your liking once again. Here we use -53 for Brightness and 25 for Contrast
This should be the end of the transition to black & white. Users may also want to change the curves of the image should they feel the need to.
Now for the toning creation. At the half black/half white button, press color balance. For a sepia look, leave the settings to midtones and change it to +30 for Cyan/Red and -40 for Yellow/Blue. For a bluish tone, try to use a combination of -16 Cyan/Red and -1 Yellow/Blue. If that doesn’t work well, adjust the slider a little to get that effect. Some pictures may need different types of settings so experiment with it.
For split-toning, ignore the midtones and work on the shadows and highlights. For the results below, we’ve used:
Highlights: +30 Cyan/Red | +12 Magenta/Green | +37 Yellow/Blue
Shadows: -2 Cyan/Red | +9 Magenta/Green | 0 Yellow/Blue
And there you have it, how to create a toned black and white photograph.