Colortone

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'colortone' alters the color scheme of an image. It can add emotion to images, with Instagram-style effects.

Demo

Create your own custom colortone or apply a preset colortone. Preset colortones are: sepia; warm; cold; sunset; purpletan; texas; aurora; blackberry; coffee; clearwater; dusk and stereo. The default value is 'none'.

Preset color tones

'sepia'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=sepia

Sepia colortone image

'warm'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=warm

Warm colorone image

'cold'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=cold

Cold colortone image

'sunset'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=sunset

Sunset colortone image

'purpletan'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=purpletan

Purpletan colortone image

'texas'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=texas

Texas colortone image

'aurora'
https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=aurora

Aurora colortone image

'blackberry'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=blackberry

Blackberry colortone image

'coffee'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=coffee

Coffee colortone image

'clearwater'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=clearwater

Clearwater colortone image

'dusk'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=dusk

Dusk colortone image

'stereo'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone=stereo

Stereo colortone image

Custom color tones

Create your own style with 3 advanced colortone options: colortone color, colortone level and colortone mode.

'colortone.color' sets the color applied to an image. Apply the color with hex RGB or an HTML color name, like so:

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.color=orange

Image with orange color tone

Apply a hex RGB color like so:

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.color=009acf

Image with hex color tone

'colortone.level' sets the amount color tone that is applied, with 0 being no tone and 100 being maximum tone (the default).

Original

Original image without color tone

Colortone level 40

Image with colortone level 40

Colortone level 80

Image with colortone level 80

'colortone.mode' applies tone to either shadows, highlights or, by default, to the entire image (solid).

'solid'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.color=orange&colortone.level=20&colortone.mode=solid

Image with color tone applied to the whole image

'highlights'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.color=pink&colortone.level=30&colortone.mode=highlights

Image with color tone applied to highlights

'shadows'

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.color=black&colortone.level=50&colortone.mode=shadows

Image with color tone applied to shadows

Multiple color tones

For more advanced effects, you can apply up to 3 color tones to an image.

Apply the first tone with colortone.0.color, colortone.0.level and colortone.0.mode. Apply the 2nd tone with colortone.1.color, colortone.1.level and colortone.1.mode. Apply an optional 3rd tone with colortone.2.color, colortone.2.level and colortone.2.mode.

This image has 2 color tones:

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.0.color=0c01a7&colortone.1.color=fe3e3e&colortone.0.level=60&colortone.1.level=80&colortone.0.mode=shadows&colortone.1.mode=highlights

Image with 2 color tones

This image has 3 color tones:

https://demo.sirv.com/vase.jpg?colortone.0.color=d0ba8e&colortone.0.level=50&colortone.0.mode=highlights&colortone.1.color=360309&colortone.1.level=85&colortone.1.mode=shadows&colortone.2.color=1d0210&colortone.2.level=20&colortone.2.mode=shadows

Image with 3 color tones

Color tones with other effects

Create an even greater range of styles by combining colortone with other Sirv imaging options. The image to the right has greater contrast, brightness, shadows and a colortone:

Original

Original image without processing options

Processed

Image with contrast, brightness, shadows and 2 color tones

Here's an image with a different combination: increased highlights, shadows and saturation are followed by colortone option:

Original

Original image without dynamic imaging options

Processed

Example image with contrast, highlights, shadows and 2 color tones

This image increases contrast, reduces saturation, then applies colortone and vignette:

Original

Original image without dynamic imaging options

Processed

Example image with contrast, saturation, vignette and 2 color tones

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