A duotone is a process of printing with 2 halftones, usually black and another
color, to evoke a feeling or mood. Halftones are created in printing with a
series of small dots spaced to give the illusion of dark and light color.
Halftones can be done with black, cyan, magenta, yellow and/or a specially
formulated color dots. In researching duotones, many examples surfaced of how
images can be manipulated within photo imaging software, such as Photoshop, to
get this two tone effect. Selecting yellow-orange or brown can give the effect
of a sepia image or an earlier daguerreotype. Selecting a blue can give the
appearance of early cyanotypes. It is interesting to think, in this day of high
definition and high quality digital cameras, that these changes in coloration
were inspired by a time where achieving realistic colors in photography was not
possible.
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