Image colour overlay trick?

without loosing detail

[richardb]

OK I’m stumped

Need a graphic effect which I can’t find an example of so I’ll try to explain…

The image needs to have a colour overlay, e.g. green and must retain the detail within but not the additional colours, e.g. red, brown… It’s got be simple but

Have access to FW & PS & Flash

TIA

Rich

[limbo]

As ever you can do this in a number of ways:

using FW or PS I would select the image and then alter 'Hue saturation' and 'colour levels'. Play with the command until the red and blue have been removed.(RGB mode)

Alternantivley (in FW) you could convert the image to grey scale

Then draw a green rectangle over the image on a new layer - select the layer opacity in the layer pallette and drop to desired level.

then alter the contrast and brightness to maintain a tonal match with original image.

[jetboy_70]

Take the graphic into Photoshop, add a new layer above it, fill the new layer with the colour you want and change the top layer type to either 'color' or 'hue'. That what you're after?

[limbo]

Also (again in FW)

When you have found the combination of effects you are happy with - select the actions in the history pallette and click on the arrow top right and click 'save as command'

This will enable you to quickly adapt any image to the effect you have lovingly created :)

[richardb]

Excellent Ta Folks!