Digital BW, The Print

Does anyone have any favorite Duotone presets?  I know how to construct these, but am wondering if there any great ones that have been successful used for fine book making.  I recently made a Blurb snapshot book and converted all old B&W snapshots to duotone in a warmtone.  Nice....but for my own photographs I am wanting a more subtle preset.  

I am particularly interested in a more modern subtle split tone, ie Selenium toned simulation.

I am not that impressed with the ones prepackaged by Adobe.  Any bookmakers out there with opinions or presets they would be willing to share.

Thanks in advance.

Phil

Luminous landscape used to have some duotones and quadtones [incl selenium
lookalike]that produced very pleasing results for me some time back - I
assume they're still on the site . Aint no bookmaker though so cant speak to
whether quality or criteria are what you're looking for...
Steve

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Subject: [Digital BW] OT....Photoshop Duotone presets
 
  
Does anyone have any favorite Duotone presets? I know how to construct
these, but am wondering if there any great ones that have been successful
used for fine book making. I recently made a Blurb snapshot book and
converted all old B&W snapshots to duotone in a warmtone. Nice....but for my
own photographs I am wanting a more subtle preset. 

I am particularly interested in a more modern subtle split tone, ie Selenium
toned simulation.

I am not that impressed with the ones prepackaged by Adobe. Any bookmakers
out there with opinions or presets they would be willing to share.

Thanks in advance.

Phil



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On 12/08/2009 Steve Woolfenden wrote:
> Luminous landscape used to have some duotones and quadtones [incl 
> selenium
> lookalike]that produced very pleasing results for me some time back - 
> I
> assume they're still on the site 

Ken Lee also used to have a few, including a very nice lavender-bronze 
quadtone. However he now thinks duo/quadtone is an inferior method - see 
http://www.kenleegallery.com/bronze.html

-- 
Regards

Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk

Tony, this is great advice...this is what I was looking for.  

Color Fill layer is indeed a better way to do this...since I do not want to do anything in 8 bit other that the final conversion.  Duotone forces an early conversion and if the curves are off, the whole balance of the image needs to be readjusted.


Thanks for the great tip.


> 


However he now thinks duo/quadtone is an inferior method - see 
> http://www.kenleegallery.com/bronze.html

>

There are some very nice toning curves here, together with a nice article:

http://www.butzi.net/articles/toning.htm

Cheers
Jayanand Govindaraj
Chennai, India


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Steve Woolfenden <swoolf@global.co.za>wrote:

>
>
> Luminous landscape used to have some duotones and quadtones [incl selenium
> lookalike]that produced very pleasing results for me some time back - I
> assume they're still on the site . Aint no bookmaker though so cant speak
> to
> whether quality or criteria are what you're looking for...
> Steve
>
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>]
> On Behalf Of
> brouwerkent
> Sent: 11 August 2009 11:40 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com<DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Digital BW] OT....Photoshop Duotone presets
>
>
> Does anyone have any favorite Duotone presets? I know how to construct
> these, but am wondering if there any great ones that have been successful
> used for fine book making. I recently made a Blurb snapshot book and
> converted all old B&W snapshots to duotone in a warmtone. Nice....but for
> my
> own photographs I am wanting a more subtle preset.
>
> I am particularly interested in a more modern subtle split tone, ie
> Selenium
> toned simulation.
>
> I am not that impressed with the ones prepackaged by Adobe. Any bookmakers
> out there with opinions or presets they would be willing to share.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Phil
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>


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