Convert to Black and White or Sepia

• 1). Scan your picture and convert it to a digital format, or upload it from your digital camera. Consider JPEG, PNG or GIF images, although TIFF or PSD format will normally work in most photo editing programs.
  
  
• 2). Open the image in a photo editor such as Photoshop or Picasa.
  
  
• 3). Convert the image to black and white. In most programs, this is one simple step that either involves changing the image to a grayscale or directly to black and white. In Photoshop, for example, go to the "Image" menu, choose "Mode," then click on "Grayscale."
  
  
• 4). Change the black and white to sepia tone. Sepia is a dark-brown color that replaces the black in a picture. Picasa--a free downloadable picture editing program--and the more advanced Photoshop programs create rich sepia images. In Photoshop Elements, you will have to first convert the image to a grayscale and then add small amounts yellow and red.
  
  
• 5). Save the picture as low resolution for Internet use or higher resolution to make a print.
  
  

Posterize or Solarize your Picture

• 1). Open your picture in the editing program of your choice.
  
  
• 2). Go to the "Solarize" or "Posterize" command and make the adjustments necessary. This is is a straightforward effect that will quickly give an image an altered color.
  
  
• 3). Use your Picasa program to open the picture in "Saturation" effects, then make the adjustments with the slider bar. Save the changes, and then go to the "Glow" effect to adjust another slider bar. Again, save the changes. Then use the "Graduated Tint" to make your final adjustments. Some very intense color combinations are possible when you apply this process to a picture.
  
  
• 4). Use the Photoshop commands of "Filter," Stylize" then "Solarize." Choose "Image," then "Adjustments." Choose "Hue/Saturation" and "Color Balance" to significantly alter the picture the same way as Picasa.