Color

Duotone

Brightness mapped onto two inks, shadow to highlight.

Duotone: a color effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Duotone in the studio

Controls

shadow
A colour, #1a0033 by default.
highlight
A colour, #ffe14d by default.
midpoint
The tone that lands exactly halfway between the two colours
softness
Width of the crossover. At zero the two colours meet at a hard border, exactly like a threshold
contrast
A number from -1 to 1, 0 by default.
keep alpha
Off, transparent areas become the shadow colour, because their brightness is zero

Starting points

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