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Pathé Tinting & Toning

Go beyond sépia toning.

Le Film Vierge Pathé 1926 IMG 0394 Web MW
Source: Didiée, L. (1926): Le Film vierge Pathé. Manuel de développement et de tirage. Paris: Pathé. Photograph by Martin Weiss, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors, from Filmcolors.org

Pathé's Tinting and Toning, expressed as look up tables (LUTs).

Tinting and Toning were the processes used to colour film before 2-colour and 3-colour camera/print systems. Tinting was a simple dye bath for a positive print, colouring the highlights. Toning was a multi-step process that replaced the silver in a print (dark areas) with dye, taking the silver ferrocyanide and replacing it with a coloured ferrocyanide, like ferric ferrocyanide (Prussian Blue) or uranium ferrocyanide (orange red – Pathé 69, replaced by the less harmful copper ferrocyanide of Pathé 70). Sometimes both tinting and toning processes were combined to effect highlights and darks in different colours.

Colour samples are based on original print samples and colour combinations of the Pathé catalogue.

All these LUTs are applied to an orthochromatic monochrome, a black and white image that doesn't record reds or oranges. Feed the LUT a full colour image and it will do the orthochromatic conversion and the tinting or toning (and not expose you to harsh chemistry or toxic radiation).

Think of these LUTs as a colour process. They do not do log conversions of camera footage, so they will work with any image profile. If you need to do log conversions on your footage, I'd recommend doing that first before applying these LUTs.

Apply the LUT using your favourite LUT utility. Comes as a 3D 32-bit LUT, so it works in all LUT situations like Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, monitors and even iPhone/Android apps.

The LUT comes as a zip file and includes the following:

Tinting

Pathé 49 Blue Tinting 1896

Pathé 49 - Blue Tinting 1896

Pathé 50 Yellow Tinting 1896

Pathé 50 - Yellow Tinting 1896

Pathé 51 Light Orange Tinting 1896

Pathé 51 - Light Orange Tinting 1896

Pathé 52 Red Tinting 1896

Pathé 52 - Red Tinting 1896

Pathé 53 Green Tinting 1896

Pathé 53 - Green Tinting 1896

Pathé 54 Rose Tinting 1896

Pathé 54 - Rose Tinting 1896

Pathé 55 Violet Tinting 1896

Pathé 55 - Violet Tinting 1896

Pathé 56 Amber Tinting 1896

Pathé 56 - Amber Tinting 1896

Pathé 57 Orange Tinting 1896

Pathé 57 - Orange Tinting 1896

Metallic Toning

Pathé 68 No 1 Blue Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 68 - No 1 Blue Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 69 No 2 Brown Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 69 - No 2 Brown Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 70 No 3 Red Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 70 - No 3 Red Metallic Toning 1896


Pathé 71 No 4 Green Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 71 - No 4 Green Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 71 No 5 Sépia Metallic Toning 1896

Pathé 71 - No 5 Sépia Metallic Toning 1896

Tinting on Toning

Pathé 72 Yellow Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 72 - Yellow Tinting on Blue Toning 1896/p>

Pathé 73 Rose Tinting On Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 73 - Rose Tinting on Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 74 Orange Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 74 - Orange Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 75 Green Tinting On Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 75 - Green Tinting on Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 76 Violet Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 76 - Violet Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 77 Rose Tinting On Brown Toning 1896

Pathé 77 - Rose Tinting on Brown Toning 1896

Pathé 78 Amber Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 78 - Amber Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 79 Blue Tinting On Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 79 - Blue Tinting on Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 80 Rose Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 80 - Rose Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 81 Violet Tinting On Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 81 - Violet Tinting on Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 82 Bright Orange Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 82 - Bright Orange Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 83 Blue Tinting On Brown Toning 1896

Pathé 83 - Blue Tinting on Brown Toning 1896

Pathé 84 Blue Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 84 - Blue Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 85 Amber Tinting On Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 85 - Amber Tinting on Sépia Toning 1896

Pathé 86 Green Tinting On Blue Toning 1896

Pathé 86 - Green Tinting on Blue Toning 1896

Mordant Toning

Pathé 90 Blue Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 90 - Blue Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 91 Green Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 91 - Green Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 92 Red Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 92 - Red Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 93 Red Orange Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 93 - Red-Orange Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 94 Violet Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 94 - Violet Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 95 Blue Green Mordant Toning 1909

Pathé 95 - Blue-Green Mordant Toning 1909