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TUTORIAL | Double Exposures by Allie Wilson of Allie Wilson Photography

TUTORIAL | Double Exposures by Allie Wilson of Allie Wilson Photography

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WHAT IS A DOUBLE EXPOSURE? AND WHY SHOULD I TRY IT? 

dou·ble ex·po·sure ˈdəbəl ikˈspōZHər,ekˈspōZHər/ noun

the repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.

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Okay so I was asked to do a step-by-step tutorial on how to do double exposure photos in photoshop so here it us under the cut!

Alright so before you even start you’ll want to find two photos which will go nicely together, for the sake of this tutorial I will be using these images: 

To begin, we need to cut out the subject from the portrate background, you can use the pen tool or the quick select tool to outline our model:

If you’ve used to pen tool, right click and select “make selection” and make sure the radius is 0.5 and click OK. Now we need to right click again and select “refine edge”

Enable smart radius and alter the radius until the selection is accurate around the hair etc, OK that once done.

Now we need to copy the selection onto a new layer (press CTRIL+J) and add a layer with a white fill below it to isolate the portrait like so:

Now we need to open the landscape image into the document:

Now we CTRL/CMD+click on the thumbnail cutout (”copy of katy”) to get that selection. Now we click onto the landscape layer and create a layer mask:

Then we need to unlink the image from its mask by clicking the chain icon between the thumbnails in the Layers panel. This will allow you to move and scale the image independently from its mask, so the mask will stay in place while you find the best composition.

Now duplicate the portrait cut out layer and drag it to the top of the stack. Open up the Levels adjustment (Image > Adjustments > Levels) and begin darkening the image.

Now we change the blending mode to “screen” (or “lighten”, whichever you prefer).

Now, we can add a layer mask to erase some areas to blend in more.  Painting black onto a layer mask will erase areas while painting white will bring them back etc so just mess around with that until you’re happy with the blending! I settled with my blending like so:

Now this step isn't always nessessary but I decided to do it anyway. You'll want to click back onto the landscape layer (make sure you're clicked on the landscape thumbnail not the layer mask) and sample the lightest colour to fill in the white background.

Again this step is just if you want to, some images will be done by now and just need cropping etc however we can now add a Black & White Adjustment Layer and turn the opacity down to around 35% to wash the colour out.  

Finally, you can choose to add a Gradient Map and mess around with the opacity or colours etc etc.

Now we have finished it’s up to you to mess around with any other alterations etc. I just cropped mine and this was the final outcome:

I hope this tutorial was useful! I tried to be as clear as I could so it's very long sorry! Here is a link to a few more double exposures I have done using the exact same techniques!

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I have been loooving double exposures lately. I usually select one photo from each engagement session that I do to make a little extra fancy. I use Photoshop using 3 layered images:

Image of a person/people - I have found that silhouettes work well

A nature, flower, or tree picture

Texture overlay (can find free ones online or create your own by taking pictures of walls, furniture, concrete - anything that has interesting texture)

Hope this was informative and helpful to someone out there!

P.S. Does anyone know the proper way to pronounce "opacity"? Cause I don't!

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Double Exposure Cut-Out Tutorial

or how to make this:

(seriously the title is totally improvised no idea how to call it! i was just asked by a lovely someone to make a tutorial about it!)

ok first off: let's choose a picture, for our purpose we'll need an object/person where the height is larger than the width like so:

also it would be good if the area where you want to make the change to the other picture would be dark (it doesn't have to be black like in my case but it helps!!) and that is bc of the following reasons:

let's just talk about double exposure in general for a second. double exposure comes from photography when you take to pictures but on the same piece of film so you have 2 pictures above eachother. not to go into detail why, i'll just explain what that means for us: dark parts are still 'unexposed' so everything you put there that is lighter will be seen, and vice versa if you have a completely white space it doesn't matter what you put above it IT WON'T BE SEEN

ok let's leave the techincalities alone and start with all the funnnnn the first thing you'll need to do is to cut your object/cumberbatch of choice out (sorry no way around that it's a bit annoying especially only with a mouse, i have a tablet it makes everything easier) just play around with the magic want and the tolerance or take the eraser

ok let's drag this bitch onto another document

and let's make it smaller and put it in the centre (best achieved with a guide)

ok dokie let's choose the second picture (i am lazy and took an already cut-out picture, but otherwise you need to also cut it out) the most important thing is that it has a white background and let's also drag it onto our document

let's turn the new picture by 180° and put it above our british sex god

aaaaaaaaand let's change the blending either to lighten or screen whatever you think looks better (i chose lighten)

see how the dark and light parts blend?

now let's make a prettier transition: add a layer mask and work with gradients until you achieve a result you're happy with (i am not going into masks now - if you want a tutorial about them just send me an ask!)

slap some textures and psd's on it AND DONE

click here to see my result