How do I get this effect?

[Kayasha]

Hi all! I'm new here. I currently design book covers and web sites and am new to PhotoShop but loving it.

I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to achieve this look - this kinda blue-ish hue?



And this one:

The second has kind of a beige-ish texture.

I have been playing with texture overlays but I'm not really getting this same effect. If anyone could point me in the right direction of may be a tutorial, I would be very grateful!

Also, this is probably the stupidest question in the history of this forum, but I used to design all my web graphics in PaintShop Pro (don't laugh at me!). Now, however, I am working solely in PhotoShop CS6. When I design web graphics, they look small in PhotoShop but huge on the web. I am designing at 72dpi. Does anyone know why they look so small in PS, even at 100%, than they do online? They also look a little blurry online. Not sure what I am doing wrong here and feel like an idiot.

Thank you!
Kari

 

[iDad]

You could open that up in Photoshop. Add a blank layer, select the blue color that you want used the paint bucket dump the blue on that blank layer and use your Layer modes maybe, hard light or color, play around with the layer modes to get the look you like. that's probably the easiest way but there are others.

 

[iDad]

You could even add a gradient, blue gradient to it

 

[Tom Mann]

The task of changing the colors in an image is one of the most common uses of Photoshop. Because of this, there are a huge number of different ways to do so. Some of these methods will target only the mid tones, others, only the brights. Some will target only the weakly saturated colors while others might change only a small range of highly saturated colors, etc. etc. Some of the methods to change colors in an image will rely only upon multi-step procedures using the native tools built into PS, whereas others are commercial plugins that will provide a large number of different looks at the press of a button (eg, Topaz Re-style).

Each of these methods will look different, each will act differently on different starting images (some, greatly different), and all will have different unintended and possibly unwanted side-effects, eg, you want to give a porcelain look to skin, but when doing so, everything gets brighter or the sky looks like it too is made of porcelain.

To me, the bottom line is that you simply have to learn as many of these techniques as possible, and become so familiar with them through practice that you know exactly which one to pull out of your tool kit in a given situation.

I'm sure that other responders will make concrete suggestions about obtaining the two specific color efx you cited, but keep in mind that these are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Cheers,

Tom M

 

[Trevor Dennis]

If you are happy for the white ares to remain white - as on the right - then add a layer > fill it with your colour of choice and set its blend mode to Color.
If you want the colour to cover the whole image > add a layer and go Edit > Fill > 50% Grey and set the blend mode to Multiply.
Then do the blue layer set to Colour as in the first step

 

[iDad]

Just getting some Photoshop playtime in.

 

[Kayasha]

Thanks so much for the replies! I have lots of playing to do! PhotoShop is so powerful - its so easy to just get lost in it. I have spent some time playing with light flares and textures and love how some of those have come out.

I do like that porcelain skin look - especially for book covers.

Thank you for the screenshots! Its a huge help!

Kari