Warhol Effect?

[jjhunter]

Hey all--

I'm playing around with some banner designs for a comm I run, and someone suggested doing a Warhol-esque version of the black and white variant. Does anyone know how to do that? I can easily modify the background, but the greyscale image of the 'poetree' is much more challenging.

Black & white version:






Two different colored backgrounds: (note that the tree remains in greyscale)





How do I selective tint only a portion of a particular layer's tonal range a particular color?



Andy Warhol print for reference.

Comments

[jjhunter]

Oo...that's very clever! Thank you - that should definitely do the trick. (I'm kicking myself because I'm already using some transparency tricks to adjust the lightness of the dreamwidth logo - I should have thought of other ways of playing with it!) Would duplicating the layer with the 'poetree' and then working with the duplicate layer be a good place to start?

[melannen]

I find it's generally not a bad idea to work with a duplicate layer just in case, although since you'll be doing all the work on a new transparent layer anyway, you're not too likely to mess up the original. (You could put the colors directly on a duplicate image layer instead of a plain transparent one and play with layer mode/opacity tricks on that one, if that helps you to get the colors on the right places.)

[sara]

Well, and if you think about it, this makes sense because of how Warhol made those prints -- you're essentially trying to come up with an electronic screenprint.