In this mornings lesson we were asked to create some double exposure style images using Photoshop. I've been using Photoshop for a while now but I'd only ever really used the basics so I was nice to learn how to do new things. Although the aim of the lesson was to produce a double exposure image using the ones we had taken over the weekend, we were also shown how to use several other tools which I'm sure will come in handy in the future.
For my image I decided to use a landscape shot I took in Brighton last year and mix it up with a photograph of Sean I took earlier in the week. These are the original photos :
To create my new image I first opened both of the images I wanted to use into photoshop. To stack the images on top of one another I went to File > Scripts > Load Files Into Stack.
A window then appeared and I clicked 'Add Open Files'.
Both of my photographs were then stacked together in a new window but they were both opaque. To start the double exposure effect I needed to move my portrait image so it was the top layer and I selected Lighten in the Layers Palette.
To get the image looking exactly how I wanted I added a Layer Mask to the background image and used the Brush Tool to change how much of the one image was visible on the other. By painting with black and white I could control how opaque the Portrait image was over the Landscape.
I decided to bring out the eyes and lips and have the rest of the face just about visible so the whole thing looked like it was floating. I compleatly erased any sign of the background and Sean's shoulders from the image as I didn't like the way it looked. This is the finished image :
After compleating the double exposure style image I was asked to make the canvas bigger so another photo could be added. I decided to stick with the same theme and use another photograph I had taken in Brighton. This photo was taken from Brighton Peir looking inland :
This time we weren't asked to merge this photograph with the other, we we told to position it next to the existing photo and find away to stick the two together using the Brush Tool. I changed the brush shape into the shape of a Maple Leaf (something I didn't realize could be done until this lesson) and began working on bringing the two photos together.
I decided to spray on the leaves randonly around the two photographs until the join between them could no longer be seen. I didnt want the leaves to be all one colour as I thought it the whole thing would look better and blend nicer if they were differnt colours and shades. To keep the same colour scheme I picked up colours from the two images as I didnt want the leaves to look out of place.
So this is the finished image. I don't think it will be winning any prizes any time soon but it was good to get to use some new tools and try out some new techniques I hadn't used before. I'd really like to do something like this again in the future as I was quite happy with the results.
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