January 26 - Duotone Technique

This one was a BIG challenge for me I use Paint shop pro and have never done this, hopefully I pulled it off.

 

HA HA HA!!! You and I think alike!!!!

 

Interesting challenge, and technique... Years ago I took a class from Michelle Shreveland in making posters similar to this.. Paid for the class, and as I recall, it was much more complicated... Did end up with some cool posters! This will be fun...

 

Great Challenge! I found using complementary colors really helped. It was fun to try out a bunch of stuff though!

 

Again something I've never tried and it was a lot of fun.

 

Andy Warhol would be pretty proud of all these layouts!


The right side has the duotone photo.

 

It seems like each challenge teaches me something I didn't know. So much for thinking I have this Elements program licked! I love this technique and playing with colors!

 

Such fun, I really have not done this much so your tutorial was a real help. Thanks for the great challenge.

 

That was fun! Thank you for the challenge!

 

If you have such an old version ... does this have the ability to clip a layer to the underlying layer?
When you add a gradient layer to your photo it only colours your photo because there is no other layer, but if you then take your photo and your gradient layer together into your LO everything under your photo changes as well. You need to clip your gradient layer to your photo, and if you can not do that, then yes, you have to flatten your photo together with the gradient layer... I don't think you can do it any other way.

 

OK... I guess I need help... It is not working for me, like I know it should... I get to create gradient map and it turns my photo to a negative... if I click the same icon again , it then returns it to a high contrast B & W...what it should be... I click OK... But I do not get the pop up window with the gradient map sliders, and choices.. If I just go to gradient, it is a whole differ thing... has to be in the Map to work ... Have looked at your screen shot and I can see , when you change the color you can see it ... but I can't see how to get that drop down gradient map thing... thus cannot change the color... in my layers palette I have a small icon of a gradient map with sliders, but it does nothing, it is linked to a white mask... Working in PSC5 ... going to read through this thread and see if anyone else had this problem....

 

This was a fun challenge!
I can't express enough how much I love being in the forest! I live a few minutes walk from Kalmia Gardens preserve.

 

this was fun

 

Well I would say you did! This is beautiful!!

 

Thank you @AJK

 

This challenge made me go ack!!! But I learned something new and I do like my layout. And so fascinated by all the layouts in this thread and how fast they got done! Way to go everyone!!

 

Day 26 Duotone technique

 

This was created in Artisan 5 software, hope it met the challenge.

 

January 26-Duotone by rdutch posted Jan 26, 2019 at 2:44 PM