Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Duotones

My Project involves a lot of editing techniques for this i need to try out these different techniques to see what they could bring to my project.

Duotones


Much of the art of traditional black and white printing lies in making the most of the limited tonal range inherent in the printing paper. A common tactic is to apply a wider tonal range than really exists by making the print contrasty. This suggests that the shadows are really deep while highlights are truly bright. The success of this depends on the subtleties of tonal graduation between these extremes. A further technique is to tone the print adding colour to the neutral grey image areas.

Modern digital printers have opened up the possibilities for toning well beyond that possible in the darkroom. The range of hues is virtually unlimited as you can simulate all those that can be created with the four-colour (or more) process.


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