sepia tone
Vintage photograph effect
Sepia tone is a warm brownish tint applied to photographs or images, evoking the look of old prints.
The effect comes from sepia ink, derived from cuttlefish, once used in photography.
Now the term describes any image given that nostalgic, antique appearance: The filter gave the photo a sepia tone.
Often shortened to just sepia: shot in sepia.
- tintypePhotograph on metal sheet
- daguerreotypeFirst commercial photography method
- brownishSomewhat earth-colored
- hueColor's specific character
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
faded memories · vintage · warmth · film grain · vignette · pigment · family portrait · ferrotype · Victorian era · antique · old-fashioned · yellowed pages · heritage · analog photography · archival · retro · old timey · tint
- memoriesmemories, remember, recollections, childhood memory, childhood memories
- Victorian photographstintype, daguerreotype, ferrotype, Victorian portrait, studio portrait
- color correctioncolorization, colorize, recoloring, tinting, white balance
- photographycamera, photo, flash, lens, shooting
- Silent Filmsilent films, silent era, silent comedy, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton
- Wizard of OzDorothy, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch, yellow brick road
sepia tonefull color
Using complete chromatic range
vibrant color · technicolor · vivid color · polychrome · rich color
sepia tonefull color
Using complete chromatic range
vivid color · technicolor · cyanotype · polychrome · true color