Digital BW, The Print

The question is how to pick the right tones...easily.


> From: Tony Riley <listsubs@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:55:29 -0000
> To: <digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Duotones
> 
> 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?