Changing colors of shadow/highlight

How can I achieve this effect? I assume it has to do with the shadows and highlights...anyone have any tutorials on how to do this?

Highlights and Shadows are not the right tool for this it is better done with curves or levels as far as the two colors in AI this is easy just a color filled rectangle path for the background and the grayscale on top and select the grayscale image then a color, don't like that color then change the color and then again and again.
Not so simple in Photoshop so in this case they might want to do this in AI then bring the AI file as a smart object into Photoshop  that way all the user has to do is click on the smart object change the color in AI save and back to Photoshop with the update.
So here they have the best of both. But keep in I would in this case the grayscale colored file without the background color filled path which I would do on a separate layer in Photoshop so the colors can be control separately for the back ground and colored image.

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