New Theme: Duotone
Happy Holidays! To spice up the coming weekend I’m here to present you with Duotone. Duotone is the successor to our highly popular photo blogging theme, Monotone. Duotone is very similar, but comes with lots of under the hood enhancements.
Duotone, a Photo-blogging Theme
Background color options
Along with an enhanced color algorithm that automatically picks the best colors to accent your image, Duotone carries some nice options for choosing a static color background.
Duotone also sports a nice widget area down at the bottom of the page. Perfect for three widgets of your choice.
And to appeal to the avid photographers, EXIF data is now shown for photographs if it exists.
We hope you enjoy Duotone!
Check out the demo over at http://duotonedemo.wordpress.com
Check out the widget areas and EXIF data!
December 30th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Very cool! To carolinegorka – what skin are you using for your blog? Very sharp and clear photos.
December 30th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
really nice…
loving it.
December 30th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
yeah Cool.
Just updated my Photo blog but not sure if i will add this theme
December 30th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
ok, the picture blog now has no excuse
December 30th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
It looks Great!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:15 am
THANK YOU DUOTONE!!! I WILLBE STARS AND STRIPES AS SOON AS I TAKE TIME TO MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN!!!!
December 31st, 2009 at 2:12 am
nice……..
but I don’t wanna use this themes
December 31st, 2009 at 11:42 am
Wow, care to elaborate on the color choosing algorithm?
January 4th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
We’re evaluating the photograph in nine spots located by using the rule of thirds. We take that value convert the hex color to HSV(B) and look at the saturation and brightness to try and select the most appropriate color. After that we create an array with brighter and darker monochromatic shades of the photograph. All these functions are in duotonelibrary.php (if you download the theme) – they can be used independently of Duotone.
December 31st, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Pretty!
Happy New Year!
December 31st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
FINALLY!!! Well done!
December 31st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Regarding the three widgets… has anyone else had a hard time dragging the three widgets to the tray on the left and getting them to stay there? I certainly could not. I also noticed that I could not get any of them to stay there when I went to view and then went back to the options page. A little quirky, but I imagine these issues will be worked out, OR if it is operator error then the instructions will be better written?
Hoping for some fixes.
Happy New Year!
January 6th, 2010 at 3:57 am
If dragging the widgets isn’t working well for you, you can switch to accessibility mode.
December 31st, 2009 at 10:49 pm
nice! i wish i had a photo blog…
January 6th, 2010 at 4:02 am
You should set one up!
January 1st, 2010 at 1:43 am
hmm.. just 4 words… wow thats f**king amazing… haaah,
good job, keep creating something amazing
January 1st, 2010 at 6:33 am
I like
January 1st, 2010 at 7:02 am
very cool !
January 1st, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Nice to see a tutorial website that realizes good design. Thank you so much for everything you do to improve our creative.
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:12 am
that’s a good pic blog , i liked the way he displayed
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:58 am
Great!
I’ve been looking for it since you did the demo for the Ferndale WordPress group in November.
I’ll be giving it a try soon!
Thank you,
Gary
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
This is very nice. I particularly like the vivid colors and very attractive desgns
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
cuet*_*
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Thanks – just what I was looking for – just posted my first blog using it
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
super
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Thanks to Anthony for the stylesheet editing info. Black is best – I use Black Letterhead by Ulysses Ronquillo for my book blog. If only there were time for a photoblog too…
January 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 pm
i like this theme, but the only problem i find with it is that i like to have atleast 5-10 posts on the main page. so far, it seems that this doesn’t allow. probably because it captures the colors of the main post? anyways… i might try it again for my photo blog.
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Looks awesome. But, honestly, what I really need is a theme decorated with old books. That would be perfect.
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:17 am
amazing, good work….
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:34 am
this is cool. thanks!
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:52 am
good job !
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
that is very nice . I like it so much .
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:43 am
Thanks süper themes. that is wery nice
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Beautiful.
As they say, perfect for photography. And great for normal blogging, of course. 
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:49 pm
looks great! good work.
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I don’t like it
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Very nice. I’ve been tempted by monotone for a while but it doesn’t suit all of my photos
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Very nice appearence of the scenery of the bottom of sea. Big fish with full colour.
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Alot of you all have some really awesome blogs and themes– keep up the good work
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I use this on both my new blogs. I started with monotone, but I like this even more. Simple, uncluttered and very stylish. Thank you very much!
January 3rd, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Legal!
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Looks good!
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:51 pm
thank you very much
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Yeah baby, yeah!! How do I get my hands on duotone??? please help…
January 6th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
To turn on Duotone, just go to your WordPress.com Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > search for Duotone > click Activate.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:42 am
awesome i’m liking it
January 4th, 2010 at 2:57 am
Is that a new technical innovation in the field of photography?
January 4th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Even if the colors sometimes might seem a little “vibrant” (as mentioned above), what really works for me is the simplicity. I just upload the photo, add some text, and automaticaly get all the rest done. And it’s also a win because the photos appear with a decent size. Keep up the great work.
Looking forward for the “Triotone”
Happy 2010.
January 4th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Very nice
January 4th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
it’s nice background
January 4th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
I decided not to use it ..don’t think it suits my personal style of photography..but that’s just me..I like the idea.
To avantehandsfree …I am using Black Letterhead – think it is really smart, but doesn’t detract from what I’m posting …and thankyou !
January 4th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
that’s very cool, i like it.
January 4th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Yes, what Eszeter said
“Why not a savvy black theme finally? We only have two of them, and they are the most frequently used themes”
January 4th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
We love Monotone but have wanted widgets so a Duotone upgrade is just what we need for 2010 — thanks!
January 4th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I like the layout just not the colors but that’s an easy fix
Thanks!
January 4th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
I have to agree with the comments about the colours being to bright. It takes away from the beautiful colours in the photos.
January 5th, 2010 at 3:24 am
I started up a new blog today and tried out this theme–so far so good! Even though it’s not a photoblog, I like how colorful and dynamic it makes the featured image and the page.
January 5th, 2010 at 5:56 am
beautiful
January 5th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Nothing special I think. Maybe some more colours?
January 5th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Very nice theme.
January 5th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
hi, welcome Vietnamese
, happy new year
January 6th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Woo Hoo!
January 6th, 2010 at 4:00 am
Bright Fish !!
January 6th, 2010 at 7:06 am
Yea, agree! This theme is meant for photography blog. Thinking of revamp my blog now.
January 6th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
That’s pretty cool…
January 6th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Happy New Year and Good luck for all. GBU
January 6th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
i love this theme!
January 6th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
I loved monotone, but couldn’t use it due to the lack of widget support. Now… I love this! But, and it’s a biggie, my most recent blog post contains TWO photographs. When I previewed this theme it would only show the one photograph. Is there anything that can be done about this? Generally I only post one photo, but when I do post two it’s for good reason. I’d switch to this theme in a heartbeat if I knew that it would be updated to support multiple photos in a post.
January 7th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Nice one
January 7th, 2010 at 3:42 am
this is great for pet lovers that blog about animals, I am going to suggest they do one with cute dogs and cats on it too.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Hey guys, just one minor trouble I’m having on Duotone: I’m updating several posts with the “Insert More tag” feature. In one of the posts it updated rather fast, while in others I’m still refreshing/waiting to see it changed. Am I being impatient / forgetting something / doing anything wrong?
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On the possibility of adding more images in the same Duotone post: this has been mentioned above, and I agree that it would be interesting. On the other hand, allowing for a post to have more than one photo would mean distancing from the “core objective” of Duotone as I see it, which is (imo) focusing on *each photograph* at a time. So ultimately, I think it’s fine as it is, and you can always link the posts (i.e., photos) – which might help increase your stats.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Great idea.
It is worth a test.
bw
Philipp
January 7th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
This is a wonderful design but we wished that it was all tested in all Browser Platforms before it was published.
It looks great in both Firefox and Chrome but the Navigation in IE is somewhere in outer space.
Please update us, when this issue is resolved – we’d greatly appreciated. For now – our group have downgraded to Monotone but it doesn’t represent the full capabilities of our presentation. Thank you.