im not a photoshopper, but im pretty sure it can turn any picture into black & white in a few clicks

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if youre using photoshop (the following were done with 7.0) you could do the following with any photograph:
Image > Adjustments > Desaturate
that'll give you black and white
then:
Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > Colorize > move the Hue lever to adjust the colour you would like

here's pic examples of the steps above:

ORIGINAL:

Black and white:

Colorized:

hmm... kinda like that... but there are like two clear, distinct tones which make out blocks of dark areas and light areas - maybe something to do with the contrast?

hard to explain, but its almost like a line drawing with shadowing

thanks for your help so far

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Originally posted by goonerjack hmm... kinda like that... but there are like two clear, distinct tones which make out blocks of dark areas and light areas - maybe something to do with the contrast? hard to explain, but its almost like a line drawing with shadowing thanks for your help so far

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go into photoshop and play around
play the same way with:
image > adjustments > contrast/brightness

or... filters > blur > gaussian blur or smart blur

all these will give you different types of effects after you make your photo two toned

btw, the tiesto photo above is just blurry from the beginning.... it was taken in a low light and probably without a flash

other than that, i dont think i understand what youre looking for but i tried