Topic awaiting preservation: putting a colour mask over an image

Hi there guys, I'm trying my hand at photoshop at the moment, and there's an effect on an image I've found on a site and I was wondering how it was done.

if you go to www.breville.com.au then click on one of the subsections under products, wither kitchen, at home or body, you'll see these large banner images through the centre of the page, they all have this blue hue to them, although I'm sure they were originally colour photos that have been touched up.

Actually there are similar banner images with different colours throughout the site

Is there a way to do this in phootshop, if so how?

Any help would be appreciated, or a pointer to a site with a good example.

TIA

Havent checked the site but my guess is using curves

There are many other ways as well.

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Sexy Demoness cel

As Alevice said there are many ways.
Here is another method for you to play 'round with.
If it's a colour photo you want to get this effect with, open it in PS
Duplicate the layer
Convert the layer to greyscale (Image>Mode>Greyscale)
Make onother layer and fill it with (The colour of your choice) Blue.
Set the layer Blending mode to Multiply (Try them all)
Try setting the opacity at different levels with different blending modes...
This is just off the "top of my head" I'm sure there are plenty of other ways

I wouldn't mind seeing just how many ways there actually are, gotta be a bunch, this is the first method I'd work with:

ctrl+shift+U
pick the color you want from a swatch or something
ctrl+U
check "colorize" in the Hue/Saturation dialog box
tweak Hue and Saturation from there

The 2 above are the other ways I would have thought of. How many more are there?

Jason

similar to yours JK, but I would use a HUE/SAT adjustment layer for the added editability....

There also is the mode change method:

1. Convert the image to grayscale: Image-->Mode-->Grayscale.

2. Then convert to Duotone: Image-->Mode-->DuoTone

3. At the prompt select the type of Duotone: either Monotone, Doutone, Tritone, or Quadtone for that exact effect I would choose Monotone.

4. Click on the color swatch to choose a color for each printer and adjust the curves for each tone too your liking and hit ok.

5. Convert your image back to RGB: Image-->Mode-->RGB


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The Gradent Map Method:

In Photoshop 7 and CS you could also use Image-->Adjust--> Gradent Map, using a Blue to white gradent.

J. Stuart J.



[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 12-15-2003).]