Curves and Toning

I'm looking to re - create professional photographic toning techniques in Photoshop 7. ie split toning sepia + blue etc (warm highlights/ cold shadows)

Is there a Curve template I could download or a plug in available?

Anyone had successful results with certain techniques?

Thanks
Gary

play around with the curves and stuff.....til you get what you want....i don't know what you're even talking about because I don't work with photo's much.

there is a default sepia action. Select the actions pallet. Find "sepia tone" and press play.

As far as creating a "cooling" or "blueing" effect, go to Select/Color Range.

select "highlights" from the pull-down menu. Then, adjust brightness to be a little brighter. Deselect when you achieved what you want.

Then do Select/Color Range and this time selct "shadows" and adjust brghtness a little darker.

I hope this helps.

PS to satanclaus: If you don't know anything about photography, then how are you going to help? Why even post? "Play around with curves and stuff" is the about the most generic advice, considering he was asking for specific techniques.

Do you understand the technical effects the curves has?
Maybe try using the levels instead of the curves.

For a blueing effect, you should try one, or both of these.
1: Make a difference layer (levels or curves), select the blue channel and increase the sliders/curves to make the image more blue.
2: Alternatively, select the red and green channels and decrease them, to make the image less red and green, therefore more blue.

When I say channels, I don't mean in the channels menu, I mean from the options you get on the curves and/or levels.

I imagine it depends on the original image. If the image is all cold or warm coloured it would likely make things difficult.

under levels you can choose to specifically amend highlights/midtones/shadows. You might have some joy taking selections from different colour channels.

When colourising I often find the easiest way is to make a difference layer (hue/saturation) with the saturation set to the lowest setting (-50 I think), then make a difference layer (solid colour) on top of that and choose whatever colour I want and set it's blending mode to something like overlay/colour/soft light/etc.

Oh, remember, these two difference layers need to go above an actual image.

It very much depends on the work at hand but I have used a technique that may work in your case.... go to channels and choose the color channel where your shadows are most pregnant - the black I think but again - it depends on your pic... - may as well be the magenta or the cyan... = and work ONLY in that channel - slightly gaussian blur it - about 0.1 and then manually blur your shadows - the overall effect should be softer shadows... A wacom comes in handy there
I have found the sepia action that PS included insatisfactory - you don't get the actual sepia you see in old photos - but it's a great start - then you can adjust it manually....

"and choose the color channel where your shadows are most pregnant..."

Cheers Mihai for giving me the biggest snigger of this year.

You may want to do a Duotone going from grayscale (suggesting 14bit if possible) and useing two channels for highlight and shadow you can add color to them adjusting the curves of each to your liking.then when you have what you want reassemble them as a 8 bit CMYK/RGB for output.

I use this regularly but only for Sepia and Selenium tone looks, its much prefered to Photoshops built in and it reproduces accurately on the printing press (you can separate it into 2-3 ink plates)

Edward

Do you have ant Selenium links? Sorry to go off thread, just interested