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Duotone Process
Most
people consider black and white images as two color prints but
in the printing world that would only be a one color print.
Duotone comes
from a printing process that uses two colors (usually black+1
color). Sepia images are a great example of what duotone is.
Keywords:
photoshop, printing, colors, ink, effect, process, pressPortrait,
Pastel, oil |
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1. Open your Color image.
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2. Turn your image into black & white, using Desaturation
or the Channel Mixer.
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Change the Image Mode to Grayscale.
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Change the Image Mode to Duotone.
A
dialog box will pop up: Leave the top box to Black and change
the second one to the desired color.
To
adjust the curve click on the curve icon.
>Image>Mode>Duotone
to come back to this dialog box.
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5. To save this image as a TIFF or a JPG you will have to go
back to the RGB color Mode.
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| Black
+ Cold Gray |
Black
+ Warm Gray |
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| Black
+ Orange |
Black
+ Red |
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| Learn
more about Duotones on Luminous
Landscape. |
Photoshop
Elements
Here is a way to duplicate the duotone effect with Elements.
You won't be able to control the curve of the effect using this
trick but it will give you the basic effect.
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Change your image into a Grayscale.
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Change the Image Mode back to RGB. |
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Add your secondary color to a new Layer. |
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4.
Change the Layer Mode to Color or Soft
Light.
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Lower the opacity to taste (33% in this case) |
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you tell which one was done with Photoshop? |
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