A beginners tutorial on Duotones. This tutorial is written for anyone with little photoshop knowledge to understand.
Duotones can be found in Photoshop under Image>Modes. A Duotone is a great way to achieve monochrome image
A Duotone takes grayscale images and allows you to change the tonal range of that image from the light tones to dark tones, and create a different color range.
In Duotone you are able to overprint colors, black as your shadow and add a secondary color to your highlights/midtones. Tritone and Quadtone give you a greater control of color in your highlights and midtones. To apply a duotone effect to certain parts of an image you can change the duotone image to Multichannel mode, which will change the duotone curves to spot channels.
Starting Image:
There are a few ways in Photoshop to change your colored image to a greyscale/Black & White.
For this tutorial im just going to do the quickest way. But You can also try Channel Mixer found in Image/Adjustments and change it to monochromatic and adjust the color scales.
A quick way, go to Image>Mode>Greyscale. It will ask you discard color information, Click OK.
Then go to Image>Mode>Duotone
Now you will see your Duotone Palette.
Duotone Options:
Type: This allows you to select Monotone, Duotone, Tritone, and Quadtone.
Ink: The 1st box beside ink is your Curve options box, the 2nd box is your color selection box..
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