January 26 - Duotone Technique

I was inspired by the music theme in the tutorial. This is my grandson who is actually quite good on the piano...much to my surprise! And he seems to enjoy practicing.

 

I loooooooooooooved this challenge, I was always quite scared of the gradients. I'm definitely going to do this more often:

 

I created an ATC for this challenge which was by far the most challenging for me. I think you get the best results with the right photo. I tried 5 or 6 photos before I was happy with the result. The duotone I used is 964458/e3c771:

 

I simply love this challenge, I have this series of photos from a couple of years ago, and couldn't scrap because of the shadows and exposure...this was a perfect way to make a super cool page! thank you!!

 

I don't think any challenge thus far has taken me so far out of my comfort zone! I used a picture of my daughter and it turned out to be a really fun challenge.

 

Sorry to be late to the game with Artisan answers (I was out selling Girl Scout cookies bright and earlier). I love what @AlannaH shared and think one of those are the best options if you want to use Artisan to manipulate your photo.

 

Cool effect! I used the online option as I am an Artisan user. Thanks for the challenge!

 

This was fun! Now I want to go take some high-contrast photos I can use this technique with!!!! I chose to carry the duotone theme throughout the LO:

 

This was pretty cool! Thanks for the challenge!

MOC-26-Duotone-Challenge-Winter-walks-2019 by suetr posted Jan 26, 2019 at 12:10 PM

 

I had so much fun with the tutor. TY!

 

Thank you for the challenge and the tutorial

 

fun new technique!

 

Great learning for me! I've done this in a different way, but couldn't alter both colours
I'm was running into a problem though. I dragged my new photo to my new page (with gradient clipped together with it), and it kept making the background of my new page the highlight colour, and refusing to let me add any papers etc to cover it.
I stopped having this issue when I went back to my original, and flattened my picture. I could then move it to my final page. Only prob with this is I can't fine tune it there. I have to go back to my original to change anything colourwise and then reflatten and redrag it back to my final page.
Maybe that helps someone else?
(I should add that I'm working with a REALLY old version (2.0 I think) of photoshop, haha)

 

Thank for the tutorial and challenge. I had so much fun playing and was able to finally create a cover page for our 2007 Honeymoon trip.

 

I was able to do this in Artisan by changing the photo first to black & white. Then on the Touchup ribbon, choose colorize. I painted in the sky portion with the gold and then filled in the rest with the purple. I think that gives the most vibrant results of all the various Artisan effects I tried.

 

I've noticed folks talking about changing their photos to black and white first. I was surprized, when I went into my gradient program, that the program automatically changed my photo to black and white before I applied the tones. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

I love doing duotone and just never think of it! Thanks for using it as a challenge.
I repeated my photo, but the one that satisfies the challenge is the yellow (ffd500) and gray 6a80a4) one to the right.

 

Cool challenge!!