Split Toning Feature in Develop

[MarkNicholas]

Does anyone use this feature. Care to share your experiences. What do you use it for and do you have any particular technique. Better in some situations rather than others ?

I have often twiddled with it but it just seems to apply a colour cast.

 

[clee01l]

The only tutorial I have found was a video that dealt with tone adjustments on a photo that ended as a B&W. I would think if the Split Toning only has a benefit with B&W photos, then it hardly merits a place on the standard panel. I too, would like to know if the Split toning feature has merit beyond enhancing a B&W photo.

 

[RikkFlohr]

It works great with silhouetted or near-silhouetted foregrounds. You can tweak the sky without introducing a cast into the shadows of your foreground area.

 

[johnbeardy]

I also see it as very much for b&w. Therefore it most certainly does merit its place on the standard panel!

 

[pknoot]

I second John's comment; I've used the feature on both B+W and color images, with excellent results. While not as powerful as the PS features, it deserves a place on the LR panel.

 

[MarkNicholas]

[quote author=RikkFlohr link=topic=8294.msg56286#msg56286 date=1257345735]
It works great with silhouetted or near-silhouetted foregrounds. You can tweak the sky without introducing a cast into the shadows of your foreground area.
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I shall try that next time.

 

[clee01l]

[quote author=pknoot link=topic=8294.msg56296#msg56296 date=1257356831]
I second John's comment; I've used the feature on both B+W and color images, with excellent results. While not as powerful as the PS features, it deserves a place on the LR panel.
[/quote]As I mentioned earlier, I have only found one tutorial about split toning and that dealt exclusively with a B&W output image. How is it used on color images where a color image is the end product? I can find no instructions on how to effectively use Split toning for color images..

 

[RikkFlohr]

Another great place to use split-toning: Imagine a scene with a river winding through woods. Generally, the reflections off the water of the sky above are the lightest portion of the image. Split-toning will allow you to change hue and sat of just those highlights on the water-turning the overcast reflection into a blue sky. Perhaps I will throw a video tutorial together this weekend.

 

[William Porter]

[quote author=RikkFlohr link=topic=8294.msg56326#msg56326 date=1257435211]
Another great place to use split-toning: Imagine a scene with a river winding through woods. Generally, the reflections off the water of the sky above are the lightest portion of the image. Split-toning will allow you to change hue and sat of just those highlights on the water-turning the overcast reflection into a blue sky. Perhaps I will throw a video tutorial together this weekend.
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I would be really grateful for such a video or even a text tutorial. I've been using Lightroom since the beta of v1 and feel that I know my way around it pretty well, but split toning is one of the few features I still don't really understand at all.

 

[perottol]

I have used split-toning on old scanned photos with colour cast. Usually one of the colour channels have an offset (that would easily be fixed with PS's curves), and can make a blue tint in the shadows and a yellow tint in the highlights. This can be fixed with some tweaking in split toning.

 

[RikkFlohr]

I would be really grateful for such a video or even a text tutorial. I've been using Lightroom since the beta of v1 and feel that I know my way around it pretty well, but split toning is one of the few features I still don't really understand at all.

Sorry it took me so long. I remembered this today and threw a quick Split Toning Tutorial together. Hope it helps, belatedly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLD8KLS-CE

 

[MarkNicholas]

[quote author=RikkFlohr link=topic=8294.msg58696#msg58696 date=126161854']

Sorry it took me so long. I remembered this today and threw a quick Split Toning Tutorial together. Hope it helps, belatedly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WLD8KLS-CE
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Great tutorial. Simple but very informative and you used a good photo to demonstrate the features of this tool. I will definitely use this tool more in the future.

 

[sizzlingbadger]

I use it a lot, it's very good.