..Manipulating your print can sometimes add a special touch of creativity. Sepia toning and Sabattier are two effects that we will discuss.

Sepia Toning - When you take an image and print it (in black and white) you are stuck with only black, white, and an array of grays. Sepia toning allows the photographer to create the effect of color. Usually only one color can be added (blue, brown, green) to create the effect of a colored image. An example would be if you took a picture of the ocean. You can take that picture and do a blue sepia tone on it. This will make the water look blue.

Sepia toning works by first bleaching the image. This whitens all dark areas of the image. Then the toner solution is added, and those bleached areas are replaced by the tone. The darker the area was before it was bleached, the darker the tone will be.

Sabattier Effect - This effect creates a flat image with dramatic tracing around certain shades of gray. We say certain because depending on how long you develop the print for before re-exposing it to light, determines which shades are highlighted. Below we show the normal print, the test print, and the final effect print.

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