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Split Toning Your Photographs for Emotional Impact and Excitement

Split toning is the process of tinting the shadows of an image in one colour and the highlights in another colour, and it is a practice as old as photography itself. Although split toning comes from a black and white darkroom tradition, and mostly commonly applied to black and white images, the method can also be used quite successfully with colour images. This series explores the theoretical, technical, and creative possibilities of split toning photographs with digital post-production.

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