How to get a monochromatic color wash effect ?

Folks, any hints on how to get a monochromatic color was effect in an image.. where the image has a primary color and almost all other components of the image are a variation of that color.. and usually one or two other colors in minor components of the image.. a good example of the effect can be found in the Kohler ad campaign and specifically in the image of lady with the red hair flying the plane with a green wash effect.. here's a link to the image (from Mark Holthusen) and it can also be found on the inside back cover of February's Vanity Fair...

http://www.us.kohler.com/craftsmanship/magazine.jsp?id=www.k ohler.com/margauxfaucet/

I've attempted to get the effect using a color fill layer and adjusting the blend if slides but no luck so far...

Many thanks to all for your help
Larry

On Jan 5, 9:11 am, "LawrenceT" wrote:

Folks, any hints on how to get a monochromatic color was effect in an image.. where the image has a primary color and almost all other components of the image are a variation of that color.. and usually one or two other colors in minor components of the image.. a good example of the effect can be found in the Kohler ad campaign and specifically in the image of lady with the red hair flying the plane with a green wash effect.. here's a link to the image (from Mark Holthusen) and it can also be found on the inside back cover of February's Vanity Fair...

http://www.us.kohler.com/craftsmanship/magazine.jsp?id=www.k ohler.com...
I've attempted to get the effect using a color fill layer and adjusting the blend if slides but no luck so far...

Many thanks to all for your help
Larry

This looks like clear vision, expertise and hard work. The artist probably had dozens of source documents and the PSD could have had hundreds of layers. I'm still a novice so there may be an easy way to do it but I do not know of one.

Good luck

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"LawrenceT" wrote:

Folks, any hints on how to get a monochromatic color was effect in an image.. where the image has a primary color and almost all other components of the image are a variation of that color.. and usually one or two other colors in minor components of the image.. a good example of the effect can be found in the Kohler ad campaign and specifically in the image of lady with the red hair flying the plane with a green wash effect.. here's a link to the image (from Mark Holthusen) and it can also be found on the inside back cover of February's Vanity Fair...

http://www.us.kohler.com/craftsmanship/magazine.jsp?id=www.k ohler.com/margauxf aucet/

What you're looking at there is the result of highly professional studio lighting, outstanding photography, and the result of a great deal of professional image retouching. If even one of those elements is missing, you won't get that effect.

You can create a wash of color very easily, simply by selecting a color witht he Eyedropper tool and using the Edit->Fill command in Color mode, or by filling a layer with color and then putting the layer in Color mode. Varying the opacity of the fill or the layer will mute the effect.

Other colors can be made to stand out more by selectively enhancing their saturation, or by compositing them on different levels. However, the effect you're after, as shown in these images, is not something you can sit down and do by taking a snapshot and then doing step 1, step 2, step 3.

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"LawrenceT" wrote in message

Folks, any hints on how to get a monochromatic color was effect in an image.. where the image has a primary color and almost all other components of the image are a variation of that color.. and usually one or two other colors in minor components of the image.. a good example of the effect can be found in the Kohler ad campaign and specifically in the image of lady with the red hair flying the plane with a green wash effect.. here's a link to the image (from Mark Holthusen) and it can also be found on the inside back cover of February's Vanity Fair...
http://www.us.kohler.com/craftsmanship/magazine.jsp?id=www.k ohler.com/margauxfaucet/
I've attempted to get the effect using a color fill layer and adjusting the blend if slides but no luck so far...

Many thanks to all for your help
Larry

have not tested this but off the top
have made similar ideas like this

make an adjustment layer
Hue /sat ...tick colorize ....choose a sepia tone color
or solid color layer in tan/brown/greenish shade

go to layer modes box dropdown
try screen or overlay
you can also try as suggested vary opacity of that layer too you can use a mask on it to let more color show through in hair eyes etc