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Designing in Duotone in Photoshop and InDesign

by Pariah Burke

In this course, you will learn to design in monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone for print designs, web designs, ebook designs, and photography that truly stands out and captures attention. Software required: Photoshop and InDesign.

What you'll learn

Duotone is an elegant, classic design technique that never goes out of style, but is once again a hot design trend in all mediums, from print design to Web design to ebook design, and, of course, in photography. When printing your work, duotone can even save you money by using fewer ink. Creating duotone images, drawings, and entire publications is easy once you know the basic techniques. In this course, Designing in Duotone in Photoshop and InDesign, you will learn to design in monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone in your choice of either or both Photoshop and InDesign. You can participate in the entire course, learning to create stunning, stylish duotone-mode and duotone effect photographs and graphics in Photoshop, and amazing, elegant monotone and duotone publications and layouts in InDesign. Or you can watch just half the course, learning only the Photoshop or only the InDesign techniques. Either way, you'll finish this course with the ability to create stunning monotone, duotone, tritone, and quadtone designs that really stand out and capture interest in a world that is typically full-color or only greyscale. Software required: Photoshop and InDesign.

About the author

Pariah Burke is a creative professional trainer and a design, publishing, and digital publishing workflow expert and consultant whose passion is empowering, informing, and connecting creative professionals around the world. As a freelance graphic designer with over 20 years' experience, Pariah sits on the Adobe Advisory Group, is an Adobe Freelancer, and is an Adobe Community Professional and a former trainer and technical lead for Adobe's technical support teams for InDesign, InCopy, Illustrato... more

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