duotones

joe,

why do you want to use duotones exactly? are you just trying to warm up your print or give it a "toned" look?

I am asking because if you just want to warm up your photos and give them some depth there are easier ways than using duotones. Duotones are mostly used for printed pieces, either in CMYK as others mentioned or to mix various Pantone or custom inks together. It is pretty advanced stuff. (The first job I did using mixed Pantones I had no idea what I was doing. Had to eat the printing costs when the piece came back looking awful. I didn't even know enough then to know that what I was attempting was stupid.)

If you want to give a selenium tone look, try using an adjustment layer. (or just plain old hur/saturation.) I usually keep the photo in RGB. Do a hue/saturation adjustment layer where I click on colorize, and set the hue to 25 and saturation to 5. It works well for a quick and easy fix.
 
why?

i like the look of some of the duotoned photos that i have seen here.
but mostly just wanted to learn something new and to see if i liked any of my shots toned.
 
I think by "duotones" you are simply refering to warm looking images no? If so I think you are complicating things and using the term (often used in pre-press printing and such) loosely and not altogether accurately. Assuming I'm right with my first sentence assumption: Often it's just a matter of converting from greyscale to RGB and then fooling with the sliders in color balance. That's probably the easiest and simpliest. The Actions people create, I do a few myself, are just for faster results and consistentcy in tone and look. I have one for slightly warm, one for warmer, another for a deep sepia and so forth.
 
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