Creative Image Editing in Photoshop - Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom - page 238

Albumen Print: A Method for Split Toning
Albumen prints (1850-1890s) were made by coating ordinary paper with
an emulsion composed of light-sensitive salts of silver suspended in
albumen (egg white). Although these prints have been seen in many dif erent
color tones, the albumen print is most recognized by its very warm, creamy
colored highlight areas and magenta to purple tone to the shadow values.
With any color bias however, this process can be utilized as an easy method
for split toning an image! (See page 243 for more info on split toning.)

Note:
You can choose any
color interpretation you
like.

Step 1: Convert the photo to black and white using your conversion method of
choice. Then make sure the image is in RGB color mode to add color and tone.

Step 2: Create a new Color Balance Adjustment Layer. Go to the Adjustment
Panel New Adjustment Layer Color Balance, or choose “Color Balance”
from the adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.

Step 3: For this image, I started with the highlight values and set the Color
Levels input values to 0, 8, 52. For the shadow values I set the Color Levels
input values to, 2, 16, 49.

Step 4: I found the results of these settings to be quite garish, so I next
reduced the opacity of the adjustment layer to a pleasing interpretation.
For this image I found about 30% to do the trick!

Gray Split

Albumen