Image filter in Photoshop

Hi guys - anyone know what kind of filter would need to be applied to a colour imgae in order to get this effect that is on the pink background with the flowers ?
http://www.moncaprice.com/images/img-home02.jpg

Thanks!

I don't know for sure, but it probably isn't a filter. Try taking an image and use a filter to make it B&W line art. (Depending on the image, you could also set your contrast to 100% and get a slightly different effect.) Put a colored layer in front of it with the transparency set to 50% or so to start (and play with it). Between the flowers and the colored fill layer, stick a layer with text in white and a clear background It will get you pretty close.

On 2/2/06 1:47 PM, Pat commented:

I don't know for sure, but it probably isn't a filter. Try taking an image and use a filter to make it B&W line art. (Depending on the image, you could also set your contrast to 100% and get a slightly different effect.) Put a colored layer in front of it with the transparency set to 50% or so to start (and play with it). Between the flowers and the colored fill layer, stick a layer with text in white and a clear background It will get you pretty close.

There is a much overlooked filter called High Pass.

I'd duplicate the starting background pattern layer and run high pass on it. Adjust with level, whatever.
New layer to fill with desired color, choose a transparency blend that fits.

Quickie:
imagessence.com/imageviewer/highpass.gif

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Agreed. That too would work.

With some backgrounds/patterns Desaturate might be preferable I suppose. Just depends on what you like best.

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I think this is one of those things that the OP should just sit down and play around with it to get the desired look. Depending on the background, there are a whole bunch of ways you could do that. All would be sort of similar and all would be sort of the same. I think we agree that there's no "one way to do it" for something like that.

It is a nice effect or a lot of purposes and I hope the OP will work on it and post his results.

One of my favorite photos is at:
http://www.artisticphotography.us/John_Sebastian/

A friend asked how I did it and was stunned to learn that I did it almost 20 years ago on film. Believe it or not, I shot Tri-X pushed to about 3200 and when I got done, his fingers were out of focus so I did this to "save" the picture. Turned out much better than the original. I guess that's the power of playing around.

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Hi guys - anyone know what kind of filter would need to be applied to a colour imgae in order to get this effect that is on the pink background with the flowers ?

That is not done with a filter.

In the case of the picture you link to, the artwork was created that way, from scratch, probably in Illustrator.

However, if you want to do that to a color image, you don't use a filter. You use the Image->Adjust->Hue and Saturation command in "colorize" mode, or Edit->Fill in Color mode, or create a layer, fill it with color, and set the layer blending option to Color.

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Thank you all for such helpful tips. I managed to get this affect by combining some of you suggestions -

thanks again!

Hey, post it. I would like to see it.

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Thank you all for such helpful tips. I managed to get this affect by combining some of you suggestions -

thanks again!

I took a shot of flowers and used
image mode grayscale then used duotone, selected 2 shades of pink it came out very similar except my original was more contrasty and therefore not as soft
I have seen this flowery borders quite frequently and am thinking they are built into some layout program, as many AD's are using similar idea http://www.swedish-beauty.com/default.asp
upper right hand corner, this graphic is used in all the print pieces more prominently

How did a guy named "David" go from "Sly" to "KatWoman".

If it looks similar but more contrasty, that's good and you are getting close.

Go back to the flower layer and try a few things. I am assuming the image is a solid black and white because that is what was suggested. Okay, time to modify the suggestion. Try lightening your black to a medium gray. You can either do a color replacement or you can put a white layer behind it and then changing the opaquity (or whatever that word should be). But try a color replacement first because if that gets you closer but not quite there, do a color replacement of a deeper shade of the same color you use on the colored fill layer. That should be a rather soft look. In fact, I might even try that first.

Glad you are getting closer.

I accepted this conversion as "close enough" to what I wanted - it's from a photograph :
http://www.cranberrycorners.ca/dump/cape-header.jpg