Found this wallpaper of Björk. How could I get an effect similar

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>>84206
The guy who made this wallpaper used this leaf pic

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so I'm not in photoshop and don't know it's vocabulary.
open your leaf up
put your bjork image that is pretty simple and has a very light background over top
desaturate the bjork
blend the bjork by difference (this is where I don't know the word)
mess around with bjork's levels

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>>84219
Thanks. I was able to do just that, and I got something similar to your picture. How can I easily get rid of the purple though?

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>>84206
>find picture
>make it b&w
>mess with the levels to get a high contrast
>apply gradient map matching the corresponding tones
>add leaf in a new layer
>set leaf layer's blending mode to "lighten"
>adjust leaf layer's opacity and black and white layer's levels until you are happy with the result, or leave it like it is

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>>84747
Holy crap. Thank you so much!!