Designing in Duotone in Photoshop and InDesign
In this course, you will learn to design in monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone for print designs, web designs, ebook designs, and photography that truly stands out and captures attention. Software required: Photoshop and InDesign.
What you'll learn
Duotone is an elegant, classic design technique that never goes out of style, but is once again a hot design trend in all mediums, from print design to Web design to ebook design, and, of course, in photography. When printing your work, duotone can even save you money by using fewer ink. Creating duotone images, drawings, and entire publications is easy once you know the basic techniques. In this course, Designing in Duotone in Photoshop and InDesign, you will learn to design in monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone in your choice of either or both Photoshop and InDesign. You can participate in the entire course, learning to create stunning, stylish duotone-mode and duotone effect photographs and graphics in Photoshop, and amazing, elegant monotone and duotone publications and layouts in InDesign. Or you can watch just half the course, learning only the Photoshop or only the InDesign techniques. Either way, you'll finish this course with the ability to create stunning monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone designs that really stand out and capture interest in a world that is typically full-color or only greyscale. Software required: Photoshop and InDesign.
Table of contents
- Introduction 4m
- Creating Monotone Images with Process and Spot Colors 5m
- Converting Images to Duotone, Tritone, and Quadtone 6m
- Adding Spot Channels for Duotone 4m
- Adjusting Photographs for Great Duotone 5m
- Using Gradient Maps for Duotone Effects 4m
- Antiquing Photographs with Retro Sepia Tones 3m
- Saving and Sharing Duotone Presets and Gradient Maps 3m
- Combining Multiple Duotones in Designs 5m
- What You Did 3m
- Summary 5m
- Using Tint Swatches 4m
- Replacing Tint Swatches' Base Color 3m
- Adding PANTONE Spot Colors 2m
- Creating Mixed Ink Swatches 3m
- Shading with Mixed Ink Groups 3m
- Colorizing Monotone Photographs 4m
- Antiquing Photos with Retro Sepia Tones 3m
- Combining Multiple Monotones and Duotones 6m
- What You Did 3m