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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Duotones

2005-11-11 by Tony Riley

Duotones etc work on the principal that you are blending two different
pantone colors via two separate plates on press.
There is no way to translate an RGB file (that I know of) to a duotone
directly. You must first convert to monochrome and then create the duotone.
You can load a palette of pantone colors and select from swatches - have you
tried that?
Once you have created a pleasing duotone you can reconvert to RGB but that
is the opposite to what you would like to do.

TonyR

On 11/11/2005 09:32:43, Steve Kale (stevekale@...) wrote:
> Tony that was my question - how to get
> PS's duotone to match hue.  I can see
> in concept that it would work but can't
> get it down in practice short of an
> enormous amount of fiddling and guess work.  Is there a more
> regimented/precise way to go about matching the hue or is it really a
> case
> of a lot of fiddling?

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