Have you tried (right click on image) Script-Fu/Decor/Old Photo?

* Andrew Langdon-Davies [021125 09:41]:

Anybody know how to imitate a sepia print? TIA
Andrew

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:16:17 +0100, Andrew Langdon-Davies :

Anybody know how to imitate a sepia print?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:19:05 MDT, Judy Wilson :

Have you tried (right click on image) Script-Fu/Decor/Old Photo?

As with many simple tasks, there are many ways to do this. I must admit I hadn't used that Script-Fu. If you prefer, try this:

To tone an image with sepia (or selenium, or whatever colour you want), put a new layer above the image filled with this colour. Set the layer mode to "Color" and play with the opacity. __
David Burren

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote:

Anybody know how to imitate a sepia print?

I find this technique[1] by Eric Jescke to produce good results. Check out some of his other tutorials too, he has some useful info there.

[1] http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/~jeschke/photography/articles/gimp/SepiaToning/

From the old-photo script:

(if (= inSepia TRUE)
(begin (gimp-desaturate theLayer) (gimp-brightness-contrast theLayer -20 -40) (gimp-color-balance theLayer 0 TRUE 30 0 -30) )
()

Or, in plain text: Start by desaturating the layer. Adjust the brightness and contrast (Image->Colors->Brightness-Contrast) to -20 and -40.
And then sepiaize it by Image->Colors->Color-Balance, setting the color levels (the top three entry boxes) to 30, 0, and -30. In other words, increase the red, leave the green alone, and decrease the blue (or increase the yellow, depending on how you want to look at it.) This actually does a nice job.

HTH,