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title: "Multitone"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/html/Stylize_multitone.html"
section_path: "Stylize > Multitone"
description: "This tool colorizes your image's entire range of contrasts into two or three colors."
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## MULTITONE

![av-club-main](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/mulitone_universe.png)

This tool colorizes your image's entire range of contrasts into two or three colors.

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### Presets

Try our dozen Multitone presets to bring instant, impossible-to-ignore color schemes to your footage. Find these via the blue **Open Dashboard...** button or the **Choose a Preset...** button below it.

![Image: Uni_Stylize_Multitone_presets.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_Stylize_Multitone_presets.png)

As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create a Multitone look and then save it under its own name by pressing the **Save Preset...** button.

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### Modifying the Effect

- **Color Scheme** determines whether colors will focus on highlights and shadows (**Duotone**) or if a third color will be used for midtones (**Tritone**). As you can see, the difference between the two (red and blue verses red, white, and blue) can be striking.\
  ![Image: Uni_Stylize_Multitone_DuoTri.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_Stylize_Multitone_DuoTri.png)
- **Highlight**, **Midtone**, and **Shadow** provide swatches that control the hue for each range of contrast.
- **Contrast** sets the overall intensity of the footage's light and dark areas. Lower values makes the image more flat, while higher values will intensify the difference between lights and shadows. With Duotone clips in particular, increasing Contrast can have dramatic impact, sometimes even making images appear solarized. Shown below are Contrast values of 14.30 (left, the default for the Zinnia preset we used), 50 (center), and 90 (right).\
  ![Image: Uni_Stylize_Multitone_Contrast.png](https://help.maxon.net/rg/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Uni_Stylize_Multitone_Contrast.png)
- The **Midpoint** adjusts the balance between black and white points, which in turn affects what areas are considered **Shadows**, **Midtones**, and **Highlights**.