Sepia tones are warm, comforting and add an old vintage feel to the image. Personally I really like them and have a few around my house. I have found an interesting site that looks into the history of the sepia image. Read here

It’s quite an extensive, informative article well worth reading if you have a spare moment or two.

I was at IKEA last week and their decorating style can be quite charming. I noticed quite a few sepia prints on their walls and it got my mind buzzing. So I dashed home and created these images below. 

I use Silver Effex for my editing. They have a a few sepia presets which I try and then chose the one that best suits the image. A sepia preset is often the best way to get that actual tone. Snapseed and Lightroom have a few sepia presets. However I have tried achieving it manually in Lightroom using the colour slider and adding yellow then desaturating the image a bit….but was not happy with the result.

I prefer a soft outline so do not go overboard with the structure tool.

Some of the prints below you can purchase on my Bluethumb shop. Just click the icon at the bottom of this page and you can browse through my photographic prints for sale. 

I hope you enjoy the images.

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