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Old 27-11-11, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by kerbside View Post
Dave, point taken, looks like I may have to change the subject as there is no direct conversion using ELements.
I may have misunderstood what exactly a duotone photo is, but ... I thought sepia was mentioned as an example. And a sepia lookalike is easy to febricate by desaturating a photograph and then bringing back some colour, espscially red I think. (It's a long time ago I did this.)

You can also turn a colour photo to black and white in Elements, at least in mine, which is Elements 8.

This picture I just rustled up by turning it into a black and white one and then colorize it in the 'hue and saturation' bit of Elements. Colorise is in the bottom right corner and you can colourpick a desired colour first and then colorise the photo.



Hope I make a bit of sense. I think it is do-able even with a simple editing programme.

It may be even a better learning curve if you have to experiment and find your own way, rather than using a preset duotone programme.

This story only 'holds' if the above photo can be classified as a duotone!.

Hope this helps! (I'm going off line now, be back tomorrow if I need to explain things a bit more specific.
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