Canon Cameras

Is there a way to change color on the Canon EOS Rebel XTI?

Ok, I have the Canon EOS Rebel XTI and just had a quick question. I know that you are able to change the color of an image to black and white(monochrome), but is there a way to change it on the camera to sepia tone? I have been trying to figure it out for a while now, so if you know anything please let me know, so that I am not wasting my time. Thanks!

Public Comments

1. You are "always" better off manipulating a digital image in the computer with a software program, such as Photoshop, designed to "process" digital imaging files any which way you want. I would suggest always shoot images in RGB, the normal mode of a digital camera. Then process the files in Photoshop in a gray scale or sepia scale (sepia has many tones), and anything else you desire. However, by shooting in the normal RGB mode, you can always go back to the color version of the scene -- NOT so if you do it in the camera. In any event, if you choose to do it in camera, go to your camera menu. Select "Picture Style" under tab# 2, scroll down until "tone effect," and select "sepia." I would highly advise NOT to do it in camera.
2. Captain Explorer is right! If you use that feature in the camera, you are stuck with the way Canon has decided a black and white or sepia image should look. It is all completed buy an algorithm within the cameras programing. If you shoot in colour using the cameras highest resolution or in RAW, you will have an image you can do almost anything with later once you have sorted (edited) the images after your shoot. Making a copy image file you have changed to black and white or sepia (and saved as a different file name) you can adjust all kinds of parameters (levels, saturation, contrast and layers ...just to name a few.)
3. Shoot in RAW Once you have the pictures on the computer, open Zoom Browser, select the picture(s) you want to work with, right click it and select Processing RAW Images. Once in the RAW Image Task, select the photo you want to change, click the "Adjust" button at the top of the page if the "Image Quality Adjustment" pane is not visible. In the IQA you can change the picture style to monochrome (or to color if you shot monochrome in the first place). Under Toning Effect you can choose sepia, blue, purple, green, or none (plain b/w). You can also fool around with the filter effects, they block different colors to cause varied amounts of contrast. Hope this helps.