Shading Pictures with Color

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Balwiles
Feb 21, 2004
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Hi everyone,

Is taking a CYMK picture to grayscale and then placed a solid color layer above it and reducing the opacity to desired shading OK to do for professional printing purposes or is there a better way to accomplish this through channels?

I’ve used duotones in the past, but i’m looking for a complete saturation so I’m not sure that would accomplish the task.

THanks,

Scott W.
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tacitr
Feb 21, 2004
Is taking a CYMK picture to grayscale and then placed a solid color layer above it and reducing the opacity to desired shading OK to do for professional printing purposes or is there a better way to accomplish this through channels?

The best way to do this is place a solid color laer above it, then put that layer into Color mode.

I’ve used duotones in the past, but i’m looking for a complete saturation so I’m not sure that would accomplish the task.

Duotones will do it if you set the mode to Monotone in the Duotone dialog window.

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