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hello again....yet another question ....

I want to print an image as a duotone....I am stuck on how to seperate the image into seperations for each color I would like to use.its a greyscale image, but would like to convert to duotone and pick dark grey and white as my 2 colors.....then how to set each color on its own layer ..to print the positives seperatly......any help would be appreciated.

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out da box

Image- mode- multi channel. Channels are basically printing positives or negatives.

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bebo

first make a copy of the image on cmyk mode just chose 1 chanel cyan maybe then conver to gray scale then bitmap then the second copy invert the image then chose the black chanel then make it gray scale then bitmap.

 

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Quote: Originally Posted by out da box Image- mode- multi channel. Channels are basically printing positives or negatives.

how do I choose which channel to print the film positives from.....do I choose 1 channel and print 2 films from it? and just use 2 different colors on top of each other..with different screen angles?

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Naga

You can make the duotone using layers as shown below,
When you are satisfied, merge the curves with the layers, and copy the now merged layers to channels.

Convert the grayscale images to a profile with enough dot gain before you make the halftones.

You may need to use transparent (process) inks on white background to get a good match with, what you see on the screen. I don't think fully opaque inks will mix to a smooth gradient.

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