Duotones

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Once your image in in Grayscale mode, you can convert it to a Duotone. Choose Image > Mode > Duotone. The dialog box shown at page center will appear. From the Type menu in the top left corner, choose Duotone.
duotone type menu
Next, click the Load button on the right side of the dialog box shown below. It’s above the Save button, and below the Cancel button. Be sure you have the Preview option checked.
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Displacing Textures 		Clicking the Load button will bring up a file menu that looks like this (upper left corner of box is shown).
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Double click the Duotones folder. That will bring you to subfolders, as shown below.
load subfolders
Each folder contains files you can choose from. They include the color, and curves needed to make nice, reasonable duotones. I started by using the PANTONE (R) Duotones folder’s files. Simply choose a file, and click the Load button at the bottom of the dialog box. If you don’t like the effect, choose Load again in the Duotones main dialog box, shown at this page’s center, and try again.
    Below is the result of applying the Pantone 464 CVC duotone to my image. It’s listed as brown 464 bl 1 in the PANTONE (R) Duotones folder.
     You can choose your own colors, and make your own curves, if you would like to experiment. Do this by clicking the color box next to Ink 2 in the main Duotones dialog box, shown at page center, above. Choose a color. Then click the curve thumbnail and manipulate the way the two inks interact.
curve thumbnail
A very broad suggestion is to move your black ink’s curve down a little, and move your duotone color’s curve up a little. I am not at all an expert in this, however, and think you might be wise to stick with the ‘canned’ duotones found when you click the Load button.
     Next, I’ll show you a tritone, and a quadtone, followed by many different duotones, all on one page so you can compare the effects.
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