HOW TO MAKE A DOUBLE EXPOSURE EFFECT TUTORIAL

trishy (54)in #art • 8 years ago

Today guys I'm gonna show you how to edit your pictures on adobe photoshop to achieve a double exposure effect.

This can be handy when you are trying to make cover photo or just want to play and experiment with your photos

Let me show you guys how easy this is to manipulate your photos.
First, open the photo in adobe photoshop. Then click the channels tab.

Select the channel that will give more contrast to the picture.

Then duplicate that channel.

Then select that channel and click "Image" then "levels". Or just press CTRL+J.

Then adjust the levels to achieve the right contrast.

Then using a brush color the parts of the subject with black make sure not leave any white parts on it.

It should like this.

Then click the RBG channel to select all channels.

Then hold CTRL and click the duplicated channel.And you will see that you have selected the subject of the photo.

Then click "Select" followed by inverse.

Press CTRL+C to copy the selected item and then CTRL+V to paste it to a new layer. Add another layer then fill it with white

Open the background photo that you prefer then add that on another layer.

Put that layer on top then hold CTRL then select the the thumbnail layer of the subject then click ad mask.

Then click the chain symbol to unlink the layers. Make sure the background layer is selected.

Click "edit" then transform and then scale to adjust the position of the background layer. Or just press CTRL+T.

Then press enter when its done.

Copy the the subject layer by pressing CTRL+J.

Put that layer on top the other layers.

Select that layer, and click "Image" then adjustments then desaturate to make the image black and white. Or just press SHIFT+ CTRL+U.

Click normal and change it to "Multiply".

So It will look like this.

Select add mask.

Make sure that the mask is selected.

Then go to brush tool. Pick a soft brush with 0% hardness then select the black color.

Use the brush on the image so that you can erase the other parts of the image exept the features of the face.

Then change the background to the color that you prefer.

Copy the background photo.

Blur the background by selecting "image" then blur and Gaussian blur.

Then add mask as well on this layer. Again go to brush tool and use that to make the subject visible.

There you have it. So I hope guys that this tutorial will be useful to you and maybe you'll get some tips on how to manipulate your images.
I have another 2 examples of this technique.

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