duotone

[danir]

two questions:

1. Is a duotone image just a version of b/w where the black and white are replaced by two different colors? thus having a range of tones between the two?

2. If so, I'd be happy to know how this is done with gimp.

Thanks,
Dani.

 

[Aquarium Dreams]

Half right. While you could replace the black with duotone, for something like sepia or other traditional b&w toning, your two colors would be black plus a hue (or hues) in place of white. I've only done it in photoshop, so I can't help with gimp.

 

[danir]

Thanks for the info.
Any gimp people here?

Dani.

 

[Digital Matt]

Duotone mode is simply Duo Tone, or 2 colors. They can be any two colors. The main use for this is when specifying Pantone colors for offset printing, but it can provide some interesting results for photographs. I don't know how with gimp, but in photoshop, you must first convert the image to grayscale. You might try poking around there. Duotone is a mode, like RGB, CMYK, and Grayscale.