Have a background image for a book cover that is grayscale. It resembles, and may have been taken from, an old engraving. I imported it from a jpg file.
It would be nice to have it in sepia like an old time photo. Is there a way to tint it in Inkscape?
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:35:35AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
Have a background image for a book cover that is grayscale. It resembles, and may have been taken from, an old engraving. I imported it from a jpg file.
It would be nice to have it in sepia like an old time photo. Is there a way to tint it in Inkscape?
Create two rectangles the same size as the image. Make one sepia coloured, put it behind the image, and then set the image as the rectangle's mask. Then make the other rectangle black and put it behind the first rectangle. I tested this briefly on a silhouette-against-sky image I had handy, and it seemed to work but I wasn't very happy with the result: it made the lights far too sepia-ish and the black too black, but you could probably get better results by tweaking the colours a bit.
It seems like you're using the wrong tool for the job, though. Using one of the Gimp colour tools, or one of its scripts, would give you much more flexibility about adapting to the contrast in the input image and jiggling the range of colours in the output.
Daniel Hulme wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:35:35AM -0400, John R. Culleton wrote:
Have a background image for a book cover that is grayscale. It resembles, and may have been taken from, an old engraving. I imported it from a jpg file.
It would be nice to have it in sepia like an old time photo. Is there a way to tint it in Inkscape?
It seems like you're using the wrong tool for the job, though. Using one of the Gimp colour tools, or one of its scripts, would give you much more flexibility about adapting to the contrast in the input image and jiggling the range of colours in the output.
I agree with Daniel and would recommend using the Gimp or any other bitmap editor for that. It' s much less complicated.
In the Gimp, the feature would be 'Tools > Colors > Hue-Saturation'. This is much more flexible than using 'Tools > Colors > Colorize...'
HTH,
Claus
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