Experimenting with Colour Processes

With my final image that I chose I experimented with the different colour processes

CMYK

RGB

Duo tone

Monochrome

Grey scale

Spot colour

Here are a few examples that I was testing to see what works and what doesn't.

This is the Duotone process which is an image made up of two colours. 

The first two images that I did was that I put a colour gradient behind the image of Blue and Orange. I don't think these colours really complimented it that well because it was only a test to see if I could do it so I picked two colours at random. 

So I tried a different way of doing it for the third image and thought about the colours that I wanted to use.

I converted my image to Greyscale, then went to Image, Mode, Duotone and chose two colours which were Black and Pantone 2915C. This worked out better but still made my image looked dark.

Here are some other duotone experiments that I did using the same process. The photo at the bottom of the three is set in triotone. I think they all work really well and the colours that I have chosen for each image contrast well with each other.

The other process that I tried was Monochrome but then overlaying another image in full colour. These are my best images as I felt like I had achieved something as I had never really done anything like this with images before what I like is the contrast between the colour and monochrome. The images looked more interesting to look at as they had more detail to them. I also played around with the effects to change the images to multiple and also brightness levels.

Here are some more Monochrome images using one colour. I minipulated the settings of brightness levels to make the colour not so flat. 

The next process that I looked at was Grey scale where again I manipulated with the lighting effects and inverting the colours on some of the images making them look darker in places also cropping the image so the view point is different to experiment with quality of the photo looks best. 

Here are some more greyscale images using Invert and shadow.

My next process that I experimented with was Spot colour. Ive never used spot colour before I was quite pleased with what I produced first time around as this was the effect I was aiming for.

To do this I used the magic wand tool to select what I wanted to make one colour, copied and pasted this which made it into another layer. Turned off the background layer and then selected the part of what I was making the spot colour again and chose a colour, then I turned the background layer back on and using the effects menu chose colour which converted the colour into a colour that merged with the background not so bold.