First duotone

[Copy_Kot]

C&C would be very appreciated

[Ronnoco]

As a duotone the pink colour looks too obviously artificial and the sides of the barn are far too dark and lacking in good detail. The sky and the snow on the ground and on the barn are also lacking in surface and texture detail due to perhaps poor control of exposure or contrast.

Any creative approach has to fit the content of the shot and appear believably natural. Highlight and shadow areas must contain at least a minimal level of detail.

Ronnoco

[trog100]

the red looks like a camera that has got its white balance wrong..

is it supposed to be sepia..?? the shots nice i just have a problem with the colour tone..

i see enough detail thow.. bright monitor perhaps..

trog

[Copy_Kot]

Thanks Ronnoco and Trog100,

I tried a shadow/highlight adjustment... is this any better?



I can't figure out how to get any detail out of the snow.

Trog100, a duotone is supposed to be a picture printed in two shades of the same color, not really the same as sepia (at least I don't think so anyway).

[trog100]

ah i see.. but getting detail out of snow is pretty nigh impossible i think the frist attempt looks better than the second..

where can i see some examples of this duotine concept..

trog

[Copy_Kot]

where can i see some examples of this duotine concept..

I'm not too sure. If you have Photoshop CS2 you can create a duotone from a grey scale image (I guess it is kind of like sepia).

Here's another duotone image that I just finished processing, I used a yellowish colour for this one. BTW, I added the lens vignette on purpose.

[MarcusK]

First off i would say loose the red in the duotone, i'm guessing the 2 colours u used were Red and white, in either case the pink doesn't help here...

In addition to what Ron and trog have said, i feel this should have been taken care on camera first before dutone... Was this Greyscale to start with? or did you change the mode in PS?

Since you loose detail and quality when you convert an image with PS in order for you to access the Duotone (not Duotine lol, i know it was typo, but a funny one for me anyway ), And then picking the colors...

If you wanna fix it, try fixing the original, then applying the Duotone...

As for the second image, there seems to be more contrast on the tractor than on anything else...i maybe wrong, but that's what i see....

But the second image works for me nonetheless....i am unsure as to any technical issues... so i will say nice shot on the 2nd one...:thumbsup:

Marc

EDIT:
Trog - To achieve the Duotone, open the image in PS, go to Image>Mode>Greyscale, then again to Mode>Duotone... it will open up a dialogue box, where you can choose the colors, and if you wish to go to TriTone or even more, you can that from the same dialogue box...

[trog100]

i like the tractor but it is a mechanical thing and i am a male.. he he

i was more concerned with seeing what are considered good examples of the technique.. there are a million and one effects that can be applied out of camera some of value most not..

so far sepia is what i would use to produce an "aged" effect.. i also dont think the tractor image would pass muster seen at a decent size.. the artifacts would stand out like a saw thumb..

trog

[Copy_Kot]

Thank you for commenting MarcusK. Marc, I converted the image to gray scale by first changing it from an RGB to Lab Colour. From Lab Colour I chose grey scale and discarded the the colour channels from the image (from the channels palette).

The colours used for the duotone where black and the orange colour that first appears when you begin the duotone process. I think I screwed things up while adjusting the curves, the barn was my very first try at it.

i was more concerned with seeing what are considered good examples of the technique..

As opposed to mine? :lol:

With the barn I got a lot of "artifacts." I had to save the image as a PSD and then convert it to a JPEG. When I did the conversion, I got a pop-up window saying that some distortion may occur (or something to that effect). That tractor doesn't look bad at 100%, I think an 8 x 10 might be an okay print.

Trog, duotones really look good when done properly, I wish I could remember the different places that I've seen them on the web.

Edit- I just printed the tractor image as an 8 x 10, it's a little grainy for me... some people like that look I guess.

[trog100]

keep at it copy-kot.. it will come in the end.. not as i know what exactly is supposed to come.. he he

other than to say i like the tractor i am not of much use..

trog