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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