Steven Jones wrote:

> Does anyone know how to make a picture with sepia hues (e.g. the very
> first scene in Titanic)?

Solution 1
- Declare a general Sepia color at the beginning of your scene
- Use this color in the whole scene, for pigments, lights, fog etc., with
different amounts of it (Sepia*0.1, Sepia*0.3, Sepia*1.1, Sepia*2...)
- Hint : using slightly different Sepias hues can make the scene richer
(a bluish one, a reddish one...)
- Example (more yellow than Sepia though)
http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/english/gtp178e.htm

Solution 2
Make the picture with the "real" colors and then use a paint programme to
desaturate the colors and give them the chosen hue. Most of them offer
this possibility. You won't be jailed for that and the result may be
closer to actual sepia photographs than Solution 1. For better results,
you'll probably have to choose carefully the original colors so that the
constrasts look good in sepia. Old B&W cinematographers knew a lot about
that.

G.

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