2Jan/07Off
Pretty
I love duotone images, they have that lovely sense of nostalgia rather than the cold and dry black & white monochrome style. Duotone is what old prints look like - for example Sepia tone, which looked that way because it was the best that the technology (if it could be called that) permitted at the time.
I've recently re-discovered duotone thanks to Adobe Lightroom's excellent Split Toning option (also part of ACR 4.0 as included in the CS3 beta). This allows you to colourize a B&W image with two different hues, and the trick is to be very subtle with the saturation. One of my favorite colour combinations to do it with is to use a pale yellow for the highlights and a cold cyan/blue for the shadows, as in this image. Hope you like it.