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Adjusting Tint and Tone

Mystical Tint, Tone, Color is used to modify the tint and tone of images to give them special looks, such as antique photographs, bleaching (to create a sun blasted look), cooling, and increasing color depth and saturation.

You can apply most effects in this program in two ways: over the entire image or brushed onto specific areas.

Color tint and tone corrections can be applied using Effect layers or Correction layers. Both of these layer types work like Photoshop adjustment layers, recoloring the pixels of the original image, but not permanently changing them. You can also apply masking layers to protect areas of an image that you don’t want to modify.

Here’s a brief look into adjusting tint and tone using Mystical Tint, Tone, Color:

In Photoshop, open the image you want to modify.

For this example, I’m using the cottage shown in Figure 63-7.




Figure 63-7: I’m giving this picture of a cottage the appearance of an old photograph.






Choose Filter>Auto FX Software>Mystical TTC.

The Mystical Tint, Tone, Color program window opens, as shown in Figure 63-8. (Depending upon the speed of your computer, you might need to wait a minute.)




Figure 63-8: The Mystical Tint, Tone, Color program window includes a Work Area showing the image.


Take a minute to look around the program window. On the left are File, Edit, View, and Special Effects buttons. On the right is a floating Layer Options palette that lets you choose from layer presets, create new layers, and clone and delete layers.





Click the Special Effects button to choose from the menu of effects shown in Figure 63-9.




Figure 63-9: Choose a special effect from the menu.


For this example, I’m using Antique Photo to make the cottage image look old.

Depending upon the special effect you select, a set of tools and settings appears at the left side of the program window, as shown in Figure 63-10.




Figure 63-10: The Antique Photo tools and settings appear at the left side of the program window.






Using the drop-down lists and sliders at the left side of the program window, select the Antique Style, Sepia Tone, Brightness, and Contrast.

The Dreamy slider controls the Sepia setting’s highlights, giving the image a softer appearance.






Click OK to apply the settings and return to Photoshop.

Figure 63-11 shows the results of antiquing the cottage photo.




Figure 63-11: The cottage photo now has an old, diffused appearance.