2 spot colour pictures for print

I have CS2 on a pc and can only seem to make pictures in RGB or CMYK (4 colour) this means the printers have to print in 4 colour. I want to print in 2 spot colour. How do I produce the appropriate artwork?
Many thanks

You either want a duotone image, or you want a grayscale or CMYK image with spot channels.
More about duotones here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-778ea.html
More about spot channels here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS9FD745D8-B3A1-4f3f-B6EA-15AF41749D34a.html

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