Create an Easy Double Exposure Portrait in Minutes Double exposure is a cool effect that has been around for a long time. In the film camera days, it was accomplished by exposing the negative twice on two different scenes. Now this effect can be easily created and embellished using a few simple tricks in Photoshop. First up, find an image of your choice. You can use a portrait photo that you have taken in a previous assignment. It’s best if the person has contrast from the background as you will need to delete the background.

Find a landscape photo. Something with a lot of color would be best. Open the portrait photo and then PLACE the landscape photo into the same file so that it is another layer.

Remove the background from the portrait layer.

Click over to the Channels panel, and Cmd +Click the RGB channel. This will create a selection of portions of the portrait.

Head back to the layers panel and turn the portrait layer off.

Now select the landscape layer and turn it's visibility back on. With the selection still made, press the Mask button at the bottom of the layers panel.

Finally, with the new mask selected press (Cmd+i) to invert it. To really see your image, add a white background layer to the image: Choose “solid color” from the adjustment layers. Select the color white or some other light color. Move the white layer down to the bottom of the layers. To make the image more dramatic, you can make the portrait layer visible again, and change the blending mode from normal to Overlay and take the opacity down a little bit.

NowEmbellishtheEffectFor this step, I used a free brush set from WeGraphics called Mixed Media. You can download it here. Select a brush from the Mixed Media set. Make sure your foreground color is set to white. On the layer mask, begin clicking, to remove portions of the portrait. Switch your foreground color to black to add portions back. You can download brushes from other places as well. See the Resources Tab for information on where to get brushes and how to load them into Photoshop.I used a smoke brush to go with the file imagery. I also added a layer above the landscape fire layer so that I could have some smoke imagery out side of the portrait image.Choose different brushes and resize and rotate them to build up an effect that you like. The finished image.

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