Making different Images from different source have the same colour tone.

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June 16, 2019
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Hi Guys,

Just a quick one.
Basically I have made a collage of images all from different photo/images.
When I put them together, obviously they will all have there own tones, as they have been taken in the environments.
What I'd like to do it have them all with the same tone as if they look one but natural at the same time.
I know this can be done manually by having the images together but I'm sure Photoshop has come a long way from this old technique.
Also I feel like he colour matching tool doesn't give you the right results.
I have seen some time lapse videos on Instagram where the person does it but can't see what tool it is.

How can I achieve this? Maybe there are other effective tools better than Colour Match. Could you guys direct me to the right place.

Much appreciated in advance.

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Warning this is a destructive technique. Save a backup PSD of your image first.

Change Image > Mode to grayscale.
Change Image > Mode again to Duotone.
Change type and preset options as desired. See screenshot.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Norman Sanders

Brainiac

Many yeas ago, when folks sent off their film to have Kodak make color prints of snapshots, they came up with a system of averaging the scene (not unlike Photoshop's Filter > Blur > Average) and, depending upon the resulting color and tone level, a filter pack was applied according to that average. The system was a bit more sophisticated than that, but the underlying theory was the same.

One instance that I recall where the system failed was at Christmas. Park a small child in front of the family's Christmas tree and the system would "compensate" for the huge amount of dark green by producing a dead tree and a lobster-colored kid. Kodak had a great term for that... Subject Failure. In other words, the awful print was your fault for photographing the child in that setting. And so it is today. To avoid Subject Failure and achieve the most professional results, I recommend one-at-a-time application of professional skill.

Having said that, please take c.pfaffenbichler 's sage advice and post sample images so that we can see what you are up against.