Grayscale? Duotone?

damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
edited April 3, 2004 in Holy Macro
Here are a few I worked on today...

A typical Shanghai street scene.
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A man tries to escape my lens!!
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Street crossing man.
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  • ShakeyShakey Registered Users Posts: 1,004 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    Cool shots.
    I made a dutone today as well. It is one of many attempts for a challenge called "wheels."
    I call this one Exploring Your Inner Wheel . (man I am lame ) Laughing.gif


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    Shanghai looks great through your lens .


    Tim
  • damonffdamonff Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    Inner wheel
    I like it Tim. What colors are in your duotone?
    Shakey wrote:
    Cool shots.
    I made a dutone today as well. It is one of many attempts for a challenge called "wheels."
    I call this one Exploring Your Inner Wheel . (man I am lame ) Laughing.gif


    3229797-L.jpg
    Shanghai looks great through your lens .


    Tim
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    What is a duotone and how do you make one?
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • AltProAltPro Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    fish wrote:
    What is a duotone and how do you make one?


    Fish:
    This is a TriTone Image, Originally done as a Tri-color GUM Print-the OLD way.
    But in order to use it on the internet, and print it on my printer, I converted and scanned the negative so that I could make it a TriTone. It looks better on my website:
    http://throughthelensltd.smugmug.com

    Now on to DuoTones/TriTones
    http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/duotone.shtml
    The address above should help you understand what "Duotone /tritone/quadtone print are. But in simple language, this print process came from the "graphic arts" domain, and since most of us have come to realize that printers do not do a very good job on B&W printing, we have found another way around it. By taking tonal readings from the print, you can then take the "grayscale" image, and select other colors from the spectrum that will allow for the gradient scale and tonal range you desire.

    To achieve this in Photoshop, take a color photo (make sure you have saved the original)
    go to image
    mode
    select
    grayscale
    discard color
    GO BACK TO IMAGE
    Select DuoTone/TriTone/Quadtone
    Click on the color blocks and begin to play

    Keep in mind this is VERY basic... But the more detailed process is describe in the link, above.
    Hope this helps a bit
    "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  • AltProAltPro Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    Duo-TriTones
    fish wrote:
    What is a duotone and how do you make one?

    Fish:

    Here is the same image, as grayscale. I bumped the ontrast a bit so that it would have a bit of oompf...
    I will try and do it again, sending it as a duotone...
    "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  • AltProAltPro Registered Users Posts: 478 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    DuoTone-Toned Brown
    fish wrote:
    What is a duotone and how do you make one?
    Finally... Here is the same image done as a DuoTone, in two shades of Brown.

    Hope I haven't gone on too much.
    ginette
    "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    damonff wrote:
    Here are a few I worked on today...
    Nice work Damon,

    I always look forward to seeing other worlds. I've been playing with Duotone... fun fun.

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    website
  • lynnmalynnma Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 5,208 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2004
    AltPro wrote:
    Finally... Here is the same image done as a DuoTone, in two shades of Brown.

    Hope I haven't gone on too much.
    ginette
    nooo, we are a group of people who love excess.. you can never "go on" too much:D I like the duotone.
    website
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