Creating a Double Exposure in Photoshop – Easy Double Exposure Effect

In this easy double exposure in photoshop effect Tutorial, I will show you how to easily create a double exposure portrait in photoshop using blend modes and adjustment layers.

Creating a Double Exposure in Photoshop

In this video, I’m going to show you how creating a double exposure in Photoshop is easy. We’re going to start off with a profile image and then we’re going to bring in an image that we call our scene image.

And we’re going to use blending modes, layer masks, and adjustment layers to get an end result that has your creative touch to it. So I started off with a profile image. Now it doesn’t have to be a profile image.

I did a search on Google and all these double exposure portraits are here. The angle of the face doesn’t matter could be side. It could be front. Your double exposure does not have to be all black and white.

You can be in color. Half black and white have color. So Google, that double exposure photography portrait and you see all the different kinds of creative ways that people have done their double exposures. Most of these are on light backgrounds.

So I started off here with this image. I’ve already cut out the image. You can use something like the quick selection tool, or you can come up here to select subject. Your cut-out does not have to be 100% accurate because you’re going to be blending in another image with this.

So on my image, I’m going to hit shift and click on my layer mask thumbnail here. So that is what it looks like with my layer mask if I hit command and click on my layer mask. There is my selection, I’ll say Command D to D Select, and I put a solid color adjustment layer.

Underneath my model layer and I made it white right now, so it’s good to have a light background that doesn’t have to be completely white, but it should be on the light side for right now. So now what I’m going to do is bring my second image and I’m going to use this image right here.

I’m going to use my move tool. And I’m going to drag it on top of the image of my model right here. I’m going to bring the opacity down a little bit so I can. See what’s behind my image?

I’m going to call this building or buildings and hit command +T and hit zero so that I can see my handles here and bring it in as best I can to how I actually want this. And click the checkmark to commit.

And now on my buildings layer, I’m going to hold alt or option, and I’m going to make a clipping mask. So my building’s there is clipped to the model layer below. So now I want to duplicate the building’s layer command +J and make sure I still have the clipping mask on both of them.

I think when I want to do is. Make some of this top pattern come down here. On the bottom, so in this top image, I’m going to say. Command +T zero. I’m going to right-click in here and say flip vertical, and I’m going to position this, and I’m going to add a layer mask right

here on this top layer, you know, paint with black. And make sure my swatch over here is. Black hit X and with the brush tool, a soft brush paint away, this area that I don’t want and something like this, and on the bottom buildings layer right here.

Add another layer mask, and on my layer mask, I’m going to paint. With black and remove some of the building that is coming over onto her face with my model layer selected. I want to add a black and white.

adjustment layer . And I’m going to make an adjustment to the background. Remember, I said it doesn’t have to be completely white. It could be any color, but you want to kind of on the light side. So when you click on the color fill right here and choose something, it’s a little bit darker and say, OK.

So now would be a good time to select your model layer mask in with your brush. You could paint black on any of the areas here that you feel. You don’t want to kind of clean things up, and you can use your left and right bracket key to make your brush smaller and anywhere you feel

like you want to add or remove something, just tidied up a little bit. Now I’m going to add a levels adjustment layer right up above the model. I will take this slider down here. This highlights slider. Take a little bit of the highlights of her face, something like that.

And by the way, you have all these other sliders to adjust if you really want to. I just wanted to get the highlights off her face. And also I’m going to add a black and white adjustment layer to the very top of the buildings, so I’m not sure if I want to leave it this way yet.

,But you have the flexibility here to go back on any of these layers make changes and kind of play with your image here and touch it up any way that you feel you want to. So now let’s add a little bit more color into it.

Now we’re going to add a gradient map and I’m going to look for legacy gradients. And you should be able to add the legacy gradients here in default gradients. Right here if you don’t see it. But I’m going to use something called.

Photographic Toning and we’ll get. Copper -2 here and say, OK. And I’m going to drop my opacity, just wanted to give it a little color, and I might want to keep my color in the building image. I want to turn off my black and white layer here.

And now if you want to add a little bit of contrast, you can use a curve or a levels adjustment. I’m going to try levels here, see what I like. I think I just wanted the mid-tones adjusted a little bit in the last thing, these two building layers right here, select both of them and change them

to Lighten. And then go back to any of these layers and change the capacity and blend modes and play with it to see what I like. Think I like the color in there. I want to add more from the gradient map.

I could turn that up a little bit. Change the color. The background can make it a little bit darker, but I encourage you to go back into your adjustments and change them to see what you like. Because remember, it is your artistic eye that is creating this double exposure.

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