Infrared photo grayscale to rainbow look with photoshop

Is there a filter or method in photoshop of taking a grayscale
infrared image:

http://www.ir55.com/images/White%20h...ce%20image.jpg

and turning it into an image similar to he

http://www.ir55.com/images/12wehjsdenew-2.jpg

www.ir55.com/infrared_IR_camera.html

Where the brightest bits are red and then slightly duller yellow then
green then blue being the dullest.

(I would be taking a grayscale infrared photo with a camera then
hoping to colour it in this way).

I don't know of a one button quick fix solution, but I would think that you
could do it with the "replace color" function one color at a time. Select
each grayscale level and then assign a color of your choice to it. Repeat
until the whole photo is colored. You first have to change modes from B/W to
Color or it won't accept any color commands. Have you colorized B/W photos
before? It isn't as easy as it would seem. I like to create a new layer for
each color, changing it's mode to color and then placing only that one color
on the layer. Then I have full control of it to set it's opacity, tone, edge
blurring, etc. ( I use Photoshop not Elements, but you should be able to
easily do the same with Elements).

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Charley


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Is there a filter or method in photoshop of taking a grayscale
infrared image:


http://www.ir55.com/images/White%20h...ce%20image.jpg

and turning it into an image similar to he

http://www.ir55.com/images/12wehjsdenew-2.jpg

www.ir55.com/infrared_IR_camera.html

Where the brightest bits are red and then slightly duller yellow then
green then blue being the dullest.

(I would be taking a grayscale infrared photo with a camera then
hoping to colour it in this way).

wrote, On 24.04.2007 14:11 Uhr:
Is there a filter or method in photoshop of taking a grayscale
infrared image:
and turning it into an image similar to he
Where the brightest bits are red and then slightly duller yellow then
green then blue being the dullest.

Use a gradient map.

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