Creative Use of Color - Beginning Photo Retouching and Restoration Using GIMP - page 121

5. Using the Bucket Fill tool (Shift + B), fill the Sepia Layer . The image will now have

a sepia appearance (Figure 5-11 ).

Figure 5-11. Sepia tone applied to a layer set to the color blend mode

You might prefer a more subtle sepia tone. If you want to reduce the sepia effect, simply lower the layer's
opacity. In the following example (Figure 5-12 ), the effect is less intense.

Figure 5-12. Lowering the layer's opacity reduces the sepia effect