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Power Colorizing

How to produce Duotones, Quadtones... Anytones!

One of the most overlooked operations in WinImages F/x is Standard / Remap. This short note should serve to help get you thinking.

Remap works with two palettes. It takes colors in the image and compares them to colors in the first, or match, palette. When a color is close to one in this first palette, it changes the color to the corresponding one in the second, or remap, palette. That can be quite interesting, and complex to handle, with a color image.

However, if you first change the image to monochrome using Photo / Monochrome, then set the match palette to 256 grey levels, the operation will map the remap palette directly onto the image's luma, which is the perfect thing for creating duo- tri- or higher "tones."

The best way to go about this is to open the remap palette, and set it to black through white, with black at the upper left and white at the lower right. Then change color #128 to a fully saturated color (it doesn't matter what color). Then make ranges from both ends of the palette to this saturated color. The palette now contains a ramp of saturation to maximum in the middle, and a ramp of saturation from maximum to none at the end. Now simply change some of the colors in the palette using the color wheel only. It's useful to have the HLS color space selected so you can be sure that you're creating similarly saturated colors. Once you have the key colors, just make luma spreads. You've got a multi-tone palette!

Here are some examples:


Duo-tone
yellow, green

Mono-tone
browns

Sep-tone!
green, yellow, red, purple, blue, aqua, pink


This is the remap palette for the sep-tone


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