Tips on how to create this effect on this picture?

[Philomena]

Hi everyone,

Do you have any tips or advice on how to recreate this effect - "merge" a color picture with a solid color background? Any specific layer to use? Thanks a lot!

 

[IamSam]

Hello and welcome.

Use a Gradient Map adjustment layer. Color is not exact match, but close enough for demo.

 

[Philomena]

Thanks @IamSam ! It looks great. I was just wondering which settings you used for the gradient mad adjustment layer.

 

[IamSam]

I was just wondering which settings you used for the gradient mad adjustment layer.

Well, there's really no "settings". All I did was set the left color stop of the gradient to blue.
Note: When you first choose the Gradient Map Adjustment layer, it will appear in your foreground and background colors. I usually (if I remember) hit D on the keyboard to start off with a black and white gradient, then I change the left color stop to the color I need.

 

[JeffK]

Couldn't quite understand what was intended by "merge" - but seeing what @IamSam did, really just was a monotone.

Haven't played with mono- or duotones much so checked into the process:

- Open your image
- Go to Image>Mode>Grayscale and click "Yes" to discard the color information.



Then go to Image > Mode > Duotone and choose "monotone".
Click on the color patch and when the color dialog box shows up, just choose the color you want or enter the values, or enter the hex code



I think this is what you're trying to accomplish based on the discussion. In any case, Photoshop always seems to give you more than one way to do something...

- Jeff

 

[IamSam]

Correction: My bad ..............was not reading!

 

[Philomena]

It works! Thanks @IamSam and @JeffK .
Sorry, I'm a native French speaker and I use Photoshop for work only occasionally. Anyway, it's great you took the time to answer, I'm really grateful