Preserved Topic: Duotones

Is it possible to create a duotone file with both colors used to create the duotone still available for individual use as seperate colors?

"Is it possible to seclude the two colors used in a duotone in the file for later retrieval?"

is that what you mean?

I want to end up with a single Photoshop file that will contain duotone photos, as well as photos and text in various percentages of the individual Pantone colors which make up the duotone. Can you adjust the duotone properties for different photos within the same file?

The file is for 2-color press production.

Hi Rod.. welcome to teh Asylum

I am not sure if you can do what you want all in the same file. I havent tried this but one way to check is too make a selection of a part of your file and apply the duotone.. see if it affects just the selected area? if it does you should be all set to go... if not then the other alternative would be to import all your images into your one file, add text as necessary just to make a layout.

Then apply the duotone you need to each image individually before you import it in. I only suggest making a layout file so you can plan out the job etc. So basically I am suggesting that you make the colour changes to each image prior to adding them to your composited file... I hope this is making sense!

Anyhow.,.. should give you food for thought... lets us know how it turns out!

~Vp~

Unfortunately, applying the duotone affects the entire file. I did get this suggestion from a friend of a friend.

We cover this in some detail in "Real World Photoshop 5"
Basically, it's very hard to do in the Duotone mode, but it's easy to
do in CMYK or multichannel mode. You could, for instance, convert the
duotone into Multichannel mode, then make edits on the spot channel
(make solid colors, etc.)... then save the whole thing as a DCS 2.0
file.

I'll give it a whirl and see what happens.