Sepia effect

[L33t]

http://www.piyada.net/304307f-gos.jpg

Im trying to get this effect, doing saturation, levels, curves or whatever doesn't really get this effect... anyone that has more precision details or numbers something that I can make it look like?

[blaskica]

Hi!

Photo by Jazs.

- main color adjustment by Color Balance (extra magenta in the shadows)
- separate adjustment layers (levels, curves) for skin, hair, bcg
- layer on top filled with low saturated brown-red put in 15% Soft Light

Hope I helped.

EDIT: Maybe overall less saturation would also be good

[mistermonday]

The image just looks like it's hue has been shifted toward yellow. You can look at her blouse / top and examine the colors (in LAB). Her top, which is supposed to be white, shows that the B channel is up around 10 while the A channel is almost at 0.
In Camera RAW I just moved the Blue/Yellow slider a little toward the Blue and got this image below which looks close to what the original scene might be.
Rgds, MM

[mtpfamily]

After sampling the colors of the photo it looks like to me it is nothing but a filter aplied and the opacity adjusted. I was able to get a simlar affect by a new layer filled it with an redish orange and set the blend mode to color, softlight or overlay and ajusted opacity.

[TommyO]

All the others have given you good ideas.
Sepia tones have numerous ways of being done. The most traditional was always a solid color fill adjustment layer, set to color blend mode, using values of roughly R:195, G:165, B:60. The nice part of the adjustment layer is you get to change opacity as well as do things with the mask.

In CS3 the new Black & White adjustment layer also allows "tint", which is the same thing. You'll notice (by clicking the color box) that the default values they use are R:225, G:211, B:179.... and they look fine. You just can't use this as an overlaying layer to do the effect, as it desaturates also.

[L33t]

oki Thanks, I will try now