 |
The principle is to have an orange-ish layer for the highlight and a bluish layer for the shadows.
Make a copy of the b&w image layer.
Add a layer above that copy, and fill it with orange. Set the mode to Overlay. You should now see an orange version of the image.
On the layer menu, right-click on the orange and choose Merge Down.
Make another copy of the b&w layer, and use the same method as above to make it bluish. (Choose a vivid turquoise blue).
On the layer menu, right-click on the orangish image layer and select Add Layer Mask, and Grayscale copy of layer. This mask will make all the dark areas become transparent.
Do the same thing on the bluish image, but choose Grayscale copy of layer and Invert mask, to make all the ligth areas become transparent.
If you want your image to be warmer, place the orange layer above the other. The layer stack should look like :
[orangish layer]
[bluish layer]
[b&w layer]
To decrease the overall staturation, add a white layer above all, set its mode to "Saturation" and its opacity to 20-30%, or anything that looks good.
(You can use Layer > Colors > Colorize to make the layers orangish or bluish in a easier way, but the problem is that it tends to darken the image, that's why I suggested to add a color layer set to "Overlay" instead)
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
It works! Thank you very much!
I don't feel myself at ease yet among Layer Masks... hope other gimpers will find your tutorial helpful, too.
I bow to your knowledge, rore! :D
Hihi, really, thanks!
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Morphina wrote: The principle is to have an orange-ish layer for the highlight and a bluish layer for the shadows. Would you care to write that up for the GIMP Tutorial Wiki, do as much as you want and I will do and add screen shots for you.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Morphina wrote: I don't feel myself at ease yet among Layer Masks Layer masks are the most useful thing you can ever use. You add a mask, where you paint the mask black it makes the pixels disappear, like you have erased them, the advantage is that when you realise you have erased the guys ear you simply paint the mask white to get the pixels back and make his ear "re-appear".
Originally posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
tuxcomputers (a group admin) edited this topic 35 months ago.
|
 |
Thanks - that turned out to be much easier than I thought it would be. Example here
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Would you care to write that up for the GIMP Tutorial Wiki
Hmm, let's see if I can do that :)
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
I tried to do that but my colours were off and it looked terrible. What is the HTML Notation of the colours you use?
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Well, I tried to use vivid colours, as in the 1st example.
Blue : 00ccff
Orange : ff9000
An example with these values :
I also tried other colour combination (such as green and violet :D ) but it didn't looked very good.
Edition : Another image to show how the layers are set :
Originally posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
rore (a group admin) edited this topic 35 months ago.
|
|
I have not got any shots that I can turn into a decent split tone image. Is it possible for you to host your XCF file somewhere? Or just access to the original B&W image?
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Great tip, rore! Really helpful. Thanks for the information! :-))
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
I have created a GIMP script that does the Split toning for you, box comes up asking for highlight and shadow colours and bingo all done.
Anyone want it?
Originally posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
tuxcomputers (a group admin) edited this topic 35 months ago.
|
|
Maybe the desaturation "(gimp-desaturate drawable)" would be easier than the conversion to grayscale and back to RVB ? Although you'll also have to check if really "gimp-drawable-is-rgb" first.
The image is slightly lighter with desaturation, that may be a good thing for that effect.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Hey, how did you get my script? Did you hack my workstation?
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Ha, I have updated it so that you can select the opacity of the individual levels and fixed the fact that when you have an area selected it gave very strange results.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Get it from here.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
This is working well, but I will suggest a few improvements.
At the moment, it
a) Checks if the image is grayscale
b) if it's not, it converts it to grayscale and then to RGB
The problem with that behaviour is that if you have an image with several layers, and want the split-tone script to affect only one layer, all the layers will turn to black and white.
Once again, I would suggest :
a) Check if the image is RGB
b) If not, convert it to RGB (we need that for the effect)
c) Desaturate the layer (gimp-desaturate theLayer)
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
rore wrote: f you have an image with several layers, and want the split-tone script to affect only one layer Oh didn't think of that, will see what I can do.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Done, new script is up.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Works a charm Tux - thanks!
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
I'm sure the script is good, but how do i save it to gimp?
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
There are 4 possible locations to put it, it depends on your OS (Windows or Linux) and who you want to made available for (user only or all users)
It is all explained in Prerequisites section of the tutorial here.
Posted 35 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Beautiful pictures, split-toning is like magic!
But, tuxcomputers, that script you wrote does not appear in my Script-Fu menu, and trying to refresh scripts gives me "Error while executing ... ERROR: error of file inside list." What is that I wonder.
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
*Pauly*Bear* [deleted] says:
The two things that I have found out that help make a great split-toning photo are:
1) Chosse a photo with good contrast
2) don't be afraid to mess with the layer mask. For this to really work, whites have to be white and the darks have to be dark.
If you look at rore's example...the photo has great contrast to begin with. Notice how nice the white and darks are in the layer masks...this is what makes a great split tone photo
Pauly
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Mardus wrote: But, tuxcomputers, that script you wrote does not appear in my Script-Fu menu Yeah I know, you will find it in "<Image> -> Filers -> Enhance -> Split Toning"
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
BTW, I wonder if "<Image> -> Filters -> Colors -> Split Toning" won't be better? After all, it doesn't really enhance things, it just changes the colors in a clever way :D
Mardus: In Gimp 2.3.15 the split-tone script gives an error, but it does appear in the list, so I suppose it's not a version problem.
I don't remember having that "error of file inside list" but maybe that could come from the fact that the file was probably written with Windows and have some "^M" characters at the end of almost every line. (those kind of files should still works on every platform, but who knows ... )
In general I use dos2unix split-tone.scm to remove those nasty ^M :) (dos2unix is found in the "tofrodos" package)
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Oh, right, sorry for being such an end user sterotype (read: stupid). Found it, used it, love it :) Works well. (I have Gimp version 2.2).
My split-toned grace:
Originally posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
*lemort edited this topic 34 months ago.
|
 |
This script is very good. Thanks
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
I cannot wait to get home from work today and try this out...
Thanks for the script!
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
*Pauly*Bear* [deleted] says:
I love the script....
I was messing around with some of my scripts yesterday. I ran across gm-channel-extract.scm (http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=7167). If you wanted to do split tone the manual way...check out the GM black and GM value setting on the channel-extract script.
I found out that they give me a little better layer mask then just plain grayscale mask...
Just a thought.
Posted 34 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
It is really great technique, however, i'd prefer not to have all the colors fixed, but rather possibility to adjust them at any time.
Something like this:
Important: masks were adjusted in contrast by +50
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
alebedenko
That works really well! Very time consuming to set it all up though. Maybe someone could write a script? Please?
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Nathan deGargoyle
Ok, here is the very first version. I know it is not optimal, but... hey! it works! ;-)
Extended Split Tone
Look in: Script-Fu -> Color -> Extended Split Tone
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
this looks like some kind of code. I'm not a programmer or a geek. What do I do with this?
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
luvdatrodinal
It is a script... kind a "plugin" for GIMP.
Save it on disk and put into
[homefolder]\.gimp-2.4\scripts\
Where "home folder" is usually
"C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\"
... I presume you are on Windows. ;-)
Originally posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
alebedenko edited this topic 22 months ago.
|
|
I put it there and then tried opening the script-fu? But it wasn't in the list. (yes i'm in windows)
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
luvdatrodinal
you don' need to "open the script"...if not to be sure to find from which menu it will be available, to do that you may have a look with the notepad.( right click on the script, and chose notepad as program to open that file)
Is not necessary know about scripting for that , you just need to trace, close to the end of the script something as this
(script-fu-register "script-fu-ex-split-tone"
_>Image</Script-Fu/Color/Extended Split Tone"
"Turns a B&W image into a split tone image"
relevant line is
_>Image<;/Script-Fu/Color/Extended Split Tone"
That tell that you may find that script in the Image windows Menus ,exactly in In the Script-Fu Menu, under "Color"with the name "extended split tone"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For the rest you don't need to open the script, you may just call it from the menu when needed
Ps have to invert the arrow in >Image< or Flickr would have interpreted, and hided, the word "image" as aTag
Originally posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
PhotoComiX (a group admin) edited this topic 22 months ago.
|
 |
Would love to download the plug-in but in gimp it says that the page isn't there. Where exactly is it?
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Kyrie Eleison says:
Would love to download the plug-in but in gimp it says that the page isn't there. Where exactly is it?
Try download it in IE (or whatever the web browser you use), save in the folder where your scripts are located and restart the GIMP (or re-read the scripts in the GIMP)
Originally posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
alebedenko edited this topic 22 months ago.
|
 |
To get a good BW image in the first place, use the decompose to layers, then adjust each layer for effect. I adjust the opacity and curves mostly until I get what I want. For a good tutorial see www.meetthegimp.org
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
alebedenko Thanks! Works a treat!
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
k. thanks.
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
does it work only with greyscale images? i saw a pic which doesn't look like its greyscale -
www.flickr.com/photos/shutterhack/2309097421/in/photostream/
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Simply trying says:
does it work only with greyscale images? i saw a pic which doesn't look like its greyscale
Of course, not! ;-)
You can get any type of split-tone.... i.e. red for hi-key and dark blue for low-key. The script will convert the original layer into the BW mask to adjust the brightness though.
Actually, I don't think it will make a pure BW any better, this is different story.
Posted 22 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Got it!
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Thanks! Great work!
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
where can I find this script?
Originally posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
DanielSan474 edited this topic 21 months ago.
|
 |
I am really having a hard time with this. I have tried this several times with no success. I can't find where you fill with color. if someone could help me out, I would really appreciate it. I will try to post some of my attempts this evening, but right now I'm at work.
Originally posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
stella_dolce edited this topic 21 months ago.
|
 |
I'm having trouble finding this script, the Gimp Registry is giving me a 'page not found' message. Help?
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
godswork96
which link?
this seems still working well
andrey.lebedenko.googlepages.com/Ex_Split_Tone.scm
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
I am getting the same error message
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Andrey's link work but tux's link does not.
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
Doh! I have not uploaded my scripts to the new GIMP registry.
I will do that in the next few days.
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
I think I got it! is this right?
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
nice stella!
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
I think I finally have this right!! (I liked the border effect from a few posts up ...thanks!)
Originally posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
Elmer Fishpaw edited this topic 21 months ago.
|
 |
I have made a video tutorial for "Meet the GIMP!" out of this.
meetthegimp.org/episode-039-different-tones-and-a-view-in...
Originally posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
r_stein edited this topic 21 months ago.
|
 |
Interesting stuff, and I personally like seeing the gimp used for this sort of work.
Might this be suitable do you think?
I may have a go.
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
@Adrian: I just tried my split tone script on that image and it looks good.... dam that reminds me I haven't uploaded those scripts yet. I will do that today..... after making sure they work in 2.4 :)
Posted 21 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
Done using this tutorial. Thnx!
Posted 20 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
 |
At GimpGuru, Eric Jeschke has an excellent tutorial that illustrates that use of the Sample Colourize and Gradient Map filters to tone BW images.
Tutorial is here: www.gimpguru.org/Tutorials/SampleToning/
Am i right to think that these are alternative ways of doing split tones? Or is he doing something else?
Posted 20 months ago.
(
permalink
)
|
|
I have uploaded my Split tone script to the new GIMP registry.
registry.gimp.org/node/4362
Originally posted 20 months ago.
(
permalink
)
tuxcomputers (a group admin) edited this topic 20 months ago.
|
 |
Thanks for this great tutorial rore!
My attempt... Orange highlights and slightly turquoise shadows. Other filters used: GREYCstoration, Smart Sharpen and Unsharp Mask.
Originally posted 4 months ago.
(
permalink
)
Sakari Kapanen edited this topic 4 months ago.
|
Would you like to comment?
Sign up for a free account, or sign in (if you're already a member).
|
GIMP users /
Discuss
Feed – Subscribe to GIMP users discussion threads
|
Deutsch
|
English
|
Español
|
Français
|
