Create a Beautiful Duotone Color Grade in Photoshop - Copycat

This tutorial demonstrates how to recreate a duotone color grade inspired by a television poster. It covers gradient maps, levels adjustments, layer masks, model selection, background blurring, and a final Camera Raw adjustment.

Syllabus

- Intro
- Apply a Green Color Grade to the background using a Gradient Map
- Use a Levels adjustment to control gradient over the background
- Create a Highlight
- Blur the Background
- Group the Background Layers
- Mask the Model Layer
- Fine-tune the Mask with the Select and Mask Workspace
- Remove the fringing white outline with the Minimum Filter
- Fine-Tune the hair selection
- Move the model layer into the background document
- Apply a brown color grade to the model layer with a Gradient Map
- Hide the color grade effect with a Layer Mask
- Use a Levels adjustment to control gradient over the model
- Adjust the image as a whole with the Camera Raw filter.