The right tone...

I have been interested in the split toning process for some time. It is a traditional (wet) darkroom technique that produced lovely, but not always predictable, results.

There are functions for making split tones in Photoshop, but I have struggled to get the technique right. Mostly they looked overdone and heavy. That was until I came across The Light's Right Studio. Glenn E. Mitchell II (PhD) has produced a series of Photoshop tutorials and sets of actions. He makes these action sets available for download, and they are free. The Internet is a wonderful place.

One of the sets, TLR Split Toning, provides you with all the tools you need. The image at the head of this post is a re-working of the mist on the lake image in the Mist on the water post. I ran several of the actions in combination (can't remember specifically which ones) to produce the result above.

I will explore this and other TLR actions in the near future. Thanks again Glenn.