Besides the web designing trends we explained in our
earlier post, there are some other trends which are also ruling the web
designing world this year. Dotone is one of the 2016 web designing trends.
Images created with Duotone color palettes are already existed for many years,
it has get greater attention with the help of spotify which makes Duotone come
back.
Duotone Images are images that actually use two
colors mitigated with middle tones and highlights. Initially, Duotone images
are used in print media with the view of saving expenditures for printing.
Many Web Designing Companies are using Duotone
images to provide great feeling, gaining emotions and sometimes thrilling the
viewers with the web page. With matching different tones of colors and
oversaturated hues that makes the image fluorescent and exhausting.
The simple steps to create duotone images with
Photoshop are as follows:
Step
1: Open
the image.
Step 2: Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map
Step
3: Choose
two colors - one dark and color and one light color. Use the dark color for the dark parts of the image and light
color for the light parts.
Click here to
see the video explanation of making duotone images and adjusting levels for the
image.
Here are some popular
brands and organizations providing outstanding color schemes with duotone
images in their web pages.
