Creating duotones with Photoshop CS5 pays homage to the first photographers of the late 19th and early 20th century. The dual tone quality of the image created by employing the duotone method in Photoshop tends to give an image character and a quality of graceful age. Also, I have found that duotoning an image in which you have composited elements from several images together really helps everything feel like a coherent whole. In other words, doutones help bring things together and add authenticity to most images. I don’t know about other people, but when I see a duotone image, I’m more likely to believe that this image is “true”, i.e. that was taken “as is” and not doctored in any way, because of the way that the colors play with my psyche.
Duotones where first utilized in old newspapers and prints. They originated from the Cyanotype and halftone printing styles of these antique publications. In the modern day duotone images have experienced a resurgence in popularity due to digital image editing software like Photoshop. These programs have enabled photographers (armatures and experts alike) to experiment with different dual color combinations.
The way that duotones work inside a program like Photoshop is the program will give you a grayscale version of your image. You then can decide how much variance you want inside that grayscale representation. You are given the freedom to go from total black to total white and everything in between. After you decide what the black, gray and white values are for your image, you then get to choose a second color for your image. The combination of both colors results in a duotone. Another way of describing a duotone comes from the website www.luminouslandscapes.com where they state, “A Duotone takes a monochrome grayscale image and allows you to take the tonal range, from lightest tones to darkest, and allocate a different colour to specific part of the tonal range.” ***
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duotone
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