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How to Make a Duotone in Photoshop, for color grading.
By Colin Smith
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
About this lesson
Walks through Photoshop's true Duotone mode: converting to greyscale, setting each ink's colour and curve, and optionally going to Multichannel for print separations. Then shows blending the duotone back over the colour original with a mask to use it as a colour grade.
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