May 2006
Here is the image I'll be using to make a successful duotone. Why use duotone? If you are going to be sending this to a printer, using duotones means using two inks. As you add more inks for tritone and quadtone, then will be increasing the cost of the printed piece.
If we want access Mode through Image to make this a duotone, notice how the Duotone selection is grayed out. The reason for this is that the picture is in RGB format and it has to be converted to a grayscale image first, so go ahead and convert it as shown below.
Then we go to convert it, the Duotone option is now available.
To make this a true Duotone, we must first select the Type box and choose Duotone. This will add an extra ink.
Here we can see that we now have two ink selections.
At this point you would click on the square for ink 2 and then choose an ink color in the Pantone library. Yellow is the default here.
I have decided to use a nice royal blue color for my second ink. Press OK.
So now if we want to manipulate how much ink coverage there will be, we would click on the linear curve box to the right of the ink and up pops the Duotone Curve that we can adjust by clicking on it and moving it.
And here is the ink coverage I selected for the blue ink.
Here we have the completed duotone which is two inks, black and blue.
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