Duotone Practice
Duotone Practice
This is another one of my practice designs, lately, I have been wanting to expand my skill set with different technics. This one was inspired by my desire to be better at making duotones. Before I was doing the whole convert image to greyscale than to duotone and messing with the levels which were never returning the effect I wanted.
So I started to look around for tutorials on how to make duotones to see if someone else had made a better technique for creating them. Luckily there was one. It involved creating clipping masks, multiple layers and messing with the levels. Now, this took a lot more time to develop than the way adobe provides you in photoshop but the results are so much better.
By doing making duotones this new way I had a lot more control over the way the colours worked, the shadows, and the preservation of detail. I need to practices more as now I still find myself going back to the tutorial for a refresher, but I will probable always do duotone images this way now as the final work 100 times better than the other way.
Now this image wasn't inspired by anything, in particular, I just need something to work with while following the tutorial. But once I got going I started to mess with the base image. It started off as just a tiger. But once the orange and purple colouring was done. I wanted to add to it, at first I thought what if I added some text. However, I wanted it to blend with the image and incorporate the duotone into the text. So while the text is white I make the overlay an inverted version of the Tigger beneath it. then added some simple shapes that would distract from the main focus of the image with the same colouring of the trigger and done.
I think it came out quite good and I want to go ahead and expand this new skill with some other work later. Let me know what you think.
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