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Creating a double-exposure effect

Creating a double-exposure effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a double-exposure effect

- [Instructor] In the next few minutes, we're going to create a double exposure effect in Photoshop. Now, there are many different ways to accomplish this, but the key point is to isolate your subject against a white background, and then add the overlying image, and then make adjustments to the tonality in that image in order to create the level of blending that you want to achieve. So we'll start by opening up this profile image right here. And I've already taken the time to create a path in order to isolate the subject. We could use the Select menu and then choose/select Subject, but it gets all of this hair, which I actually don't want, and I also don't want the ponytail nor the back of the neck or the shoulder area. So I'll deselect that, and from the Paths panel, we can click on the profile. And you can see that the profile doesn't really match the photograph except for in the face area. So in fact, I actually gave…

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