Sepia Tone

Photographic print toning

In photography, toning is a method of altering the color of monochrome photography. In analog photography, it is a chemical process carried out on metal salt-based prints, such as silver prints, iron-based prints, or platinum or palladium prints. This darkroom process cannot be performed with a color photograph. The effects of this process can be emulated with software in digital photography. Sepia toning, the most familiar such process, is considered a form of black-and-white or monochrome photography.

Sepia (color)

Sepia is a reddish-brown color, named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish Sepia. The word sepia is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek word σηπία, meaning cuttlefish.

Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the perceived hue can be affected slightly.

sepia

Noun

1. A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour.

Adjective

1. Of a dark reddish-brown colour.

tone

Noun

1. A specific pitch.
2. (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.

Verb

1. to give a particular tone to
2. to change the colour of