Variant A: Choose a different color for Ink #2. You can vary this in any number of ways the easiest two are: Select "Image>Mode>Duotone" from the main menu Make sure the image is in grayscale mode.
PS CS still has the "sepia tone (layer)" action in the actions palette, but the effect it gives is way too vivid and too red for my taste. Learn how to do more in Photoshop CC (2014 Release) here. One more cool thing: because these are adjustment layers, you can reduce the intensity of the effect by simply lowering the opacity of the adjustment layer (over in the Layers panel), and you can also change the layer blend mode (try Linear Burn on this shot) for even more looks. Make sure you try out some of the ones in the top rowâ”there are some really useful duotone/sepia tone looks up there, and like most Adobe presets, the best, most-useful ones are near the beginning, and the farther they are down on the list, the less useful they are. This one has more of a split-tone look, with a cyan color in the shadows and a yellowish color in the highlights. For example, here I chose Sepia-Cyan (perhaps not my first choice, but I did want to show you the variety of what's here). So, now you're pretty much window-shopping for the look you likeâ”click a gradient, and if it's not the look you're looking for, click the next one. Here's one called Sepia-Selenium 3 (it's the fourth one in the third row). Once they're loaded, now the fun begins, because all you have to do is click on any one of these gradients and it updates your image live, so you can just start clicking until you find one you like. I chose OK, because (1) it's easier to work with them if they're not added to the existing set, and (2) you can always get back to the default gradients by simply choosing Reset Gradients from this same pop-up menu.
A dialog will appear asking if you want to replace the current default set of gradients with the ones you are loading. Choose Photographic Toning from this menu (as shown here). This brings up the Gradient Editor (seen here), and if you click on the little "gear" icon at the top-right corner of the Presets section, a pop-up menu appears. Okay, to be able to load the Photo Toning presets, you need to go to the Properties panel and click directly on the gradient itself (as shown here). As soon as you choose Gradient Map, it applies the default gradient, which as I said above, makes a pretty darn sweet one-click B&W image (as long as your Foreground and Background colors are set to black/white, respectively, before you choose Gradient Map).
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