Duotone is a halftone image or photograph in contrasting colors like blue or black. Or duotone or duograph can be created by taking an image and superimposing one color over another. Or using a filter or setting. It’s a way to be creative with colors in pictures.
duotone windmill
I took an image of a windmill and converted two to soft, contrasting colors for a vintage look. Then I superimposed one photo over the other.
Marseilles Factory
I wanted to create a retro postcard effect with this photograph. I used complimentary colors in olive and blue, and olive is sort of a retro color.
duotone sky
I set my camera to Tungsten filter/light setting to create a dramatic duotone style cloudy sky.
These are my photos in duotone.
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This is very cool! Love the windmill.
Thanks Gemma…it is a colorful way to liven up some photos.
i love it.. maybe i’ll try to experiment about doing that in the future..
it’s colorful, creative and fun…let me know how it works out
i would love to..
thanks for showing how it is actually done – I like the duotone sky. Never sure what image suits this effect best but then I cheat with my photo editing software
I’ll visit to see your duotones.
Thank you for showing us… I’m tempted to try, maybe in the near future.
If you have some so so photos, try duotone color to give them a new look.
interesting duotone experiments!
I like your duotone experiments. I’ve made a post about a much more complicated method that effects the whole photo. http://artifactsandfictions.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/greenish-hues/
I like the way you’ve got different tones in different parts of the image. I’m curious about how you did that.
I’ll stop by your blog to see your duotone pictures. I took a black and white photograph and made two copies of it. I changed each of the two copies to different colors, cropped one of them. I overlaid one color photo over the other.