darren
Poobah Emeritus
This might be interesting to a limited audience, but I thought I should share this here.
If you do black and white photos (either straight B&W or conversions from color), you might find this program handy. The program is free, and it allows you to load a photo that you like tone of, copy the color curves from it, then load one of your B&W photos and then apply the other photo's tone curves to it. It allows you to copy and apply B&W tones like sepia, blue, brown, etc.
The program, called Tone Hack, is at the following link. The webserver the site is on requires so many page views / MB of download, so you have to click on a bunch of links to get to the actual download area. It is a little bit of a pain, but I think the tool is worth it. Click on the following link and then go to Guillermo Luijk's Website, then Software Download area, then Tone Hacker download, and keep clicking on the tone hacker links until you actual get to the file download link.
http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk/
Here is an example of what you can do with it. I liked the tone of this shot on photo.net:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5608795
I saved it locally, ran the Tone Hack program, clicked on the "..." button to load the shot, hit the "Analyse" button, hit the "..." to load one of my bodyboarding shots:
You then hit the desaturate button and then the tone button and you get the tones from the first shot applied to this one:
If you use photoshop, you can load, "analyse" a photo, and then hit the Save PS button and save the curve file. Then in PS you can load your photo, turn it black and white, play with levels etc and then load the curve file you saved and apply it to the image. That is the prefered way to do it, but just playing with the stand alone tool is cool if you do not have PS.
Remember, this program only applies tone curves. It does not match levels or set black/white points etc.
I found out about this tool on the Luminous Landscape forums in this thread:
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12955
Hope some of you find it useful.
- darren
If you do black and white photos (either straight B&W or conversions from color), you might find this program handy. The program is free, and it allows you to load a photo that you like tone of, copy the color curves from it, then load one of your B&W photos and then apply the other photo's tone curves to it. It allows you to copy and apply B&W tones like sepia, blue, brown, etc.
The program, called Tone Hack, is at the following link. The webserver the site is on requires so many page views / MB of download, so you have to click on a bunch of links to get to the actual download area. It is a little bit of a pain, but I think the tool is worth it. Click on the following link and then go to Guillermo Luijk's Website, then Software Download area, then Tone Hacker download, and keep clicking on the tone hacker links until you actual get to the file download link.
http://perso.wanadoo.es/gluijk/
Here is an example of what you can do with it. I liked the tone of this shot on photo.net:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5608795
I saved it locally, ran the Tone Hack program, clicked on the "..." button to load the shot, hit the "Analyse" button, hit the "..." to load one of my bodyboarding shots:
You then hit the desaturate button and then the tone button and you get the tones from the first shot applied to this one:
If you use photoshop, you can load, "analyse" a photo, and then hit the Save PS button and save the curve file. Then in PS you can load your photo, turn it black and white, play with levels etc and then load the curve file you saved and apply it to the image. That is the prefered way to do it, but just playing with the stand alone tool is cool if you do not have PS.
Remember, this program only applies tone curves. It does not match levels or set black/white points etc.
I found out about this tool on the Luminous Landscape forums in this thread:
http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12955
Hope some of you find it useful.
- darren
