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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #20

Duotone

Show the image in two colours, one for darks and one for lights. The colours of the same landscape are replaced by a range between just two colours: indigo in the darks and pink in the lights.

Tones & finishing looksduotonetwo-tonegradient mapcolor overlaypostergraphic

Full motion specification

How the movement works

To unify posters, music artwork or social images in brand colours.

  1. 01Scene 3: a bust on the left (head centre x 140, y 82, radius 28 px) and hills, a house, trees and the sun (x 432, y 54, radius 15 px) on the right.
  2. 02Two colours: #1F2A5C for the dark end, #FF9FB2 for the light end
  3. 03Conversion: from each colour’s luminance L, t = ((L − 70) / 180)^2.4, and the two colours are mixed by t (this spreads the light tones apart)
  4. 04Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))

Prompt

Portrait photo as a navy-and-pink duotone: darks in navy, lights in pink, nothing else.