From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
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Duotone - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
Duotone
- Photoshop's duotone color mode allows color tinting of an image in one, two, three or four inks: monotone, duotone, tritone or quadtone. In Photoshop terms, the duotone color mode is the collective name for them all. Duotones are most useful if you're offset printing a two or three color job. To get to duotone, you first have to start out in gray scale. You can change the type right here, monotone, tritone, quadtone. I'll stick with the duotone. I'm going to use one of the many presets that we have available. If I want to affect the amount of ink, I can click on the colors curve. I can add more ink by dragging up or I can also do it numerically. So if I want to pull the curve up at the midpoint, I'll come to what would be the 50% mark. If we had a linear curve, let's say increase that to 60. I'll click OK. By printing in more that one ink, you can expand the tonal range beyond what's possible when working with a gray-scale image. Duotones, tritones and quadtones have only one…
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