Double Exposure Photography Artwork in Adobe Photoshop

1. Welcome & Intro: Welcome, I'm Marie and I'm a photographer based in Sydney, Australia. My photography work focuses on telling that story. I specialize in people photography. I capture events, business storytelling, portraiture, fashion, and my absolute favorite street style. I also have a Bachelor of Art and a Bachelor of Teaching degree. And I do teach a variety of photography aspects. I'm very passionate about art and I do like to take my photographs further, get a bit surreal and embrace the subconscious. I do make my own fashion beauty collages and artworks. And if you do too, join in and learn with me. In this lesson, we're going to make a double exposure photography artwork in a Dove Photoshop. We're going to take a regular portrait photo and a nature landscape type photo, and we're going to put it together in Photoshop. You'll learn how to use layers and make creative decisions. Experiment with the different tools and filters on offer. You'll be able to apply these skills in future projects. To doing this class is a great skill building activity, Help you to get to know Photoshop better and you'll come away with your own double exposure photography artwork. In this class, you're going to need a photo shop. You'll need a landscape or a nature type photograph and a portrait too. If you are keen to get to know a Doe Photoshop better and you want to turn your photos into double exposure artworks, join in with me. In the next lesson, we're going to talk about your class project and the resources that are available. 2. Project Overview & Resources: To make your double exposure photography artwork in Photoshop, you'll need a portrait and a landscape nature type photograph. You are welcome to use my images that are found in the class project resources or feel free to use your own photos. Note that this double exposure approach does work best with photographs that have clear, bright, and dark sections. High contrast works great. Do post your double exposure artwork to the class project when you've finished. And the easiest way to upload projects is to just take a screenshot of your, design it and then upload the screen shot here in the project section. Or feel free to post it before and after two. You can upload it in the class project section just below your video. Okay, enough talking. Let's get creative. Get your portrait, get your landscape image ready. Open up Photoshop and let's get started. I can't wait to see what you come up with. 3. Project 1A Place Images In Adobe Photoshop, Transform & Blend: I've chosen this portrait and this landscape for our first project. They found in the project resources, I've chosen them because they've got a bit of contrast happening. Just note that when you're choosing images for a double exposure, the dark areas of the landscape are going to show up quite well on the light areas of the portrait, the neck. But the dark clouds here are not going to show up so well on the dark areas of her jacket. They're very similar in tone. It's opposites. Just take note of that when choosing photos, There are no real rules, but high contrast photos seem to have a better impact. Let's right click now and open our portrait with Adobe Photoshop. Now we need to bring in our landscape. Go to file up, the top place Embedded. Let's choose our landscape image and press place. As you can see, our landscape is horizontal and our portrait is vertical. Very common. We're in transform mode. You can just hover over the corners and a little arrow will come up. And you can swivel it, have a little play with it, get to know it, you can expand it. As you can see, I'm warping my image. I'm hovering over the top, and I can see it's a little bit stretched. I want my width and my height to be at the same ratio. I'm going to pop in here 100 and then press my little chain here. You can see it's now got the correct ratio, but the sides aren't quite parallel. I'm going to go to my little angle up the top here. My little rotate angle. I'm going to press in 90. Now I can see that my sides are parallel, very mathematical. I can also put A -90 and it flips it. I would like to flip it in this case because I want my moon to be in the top left. I'm just going to move it to where I want it. You can always transform at any stage, but when you're happy, press the tick. If at any stage you want to come back and transform it again, you go up the top to edit and you go to free transform or command, and you can then adjust it to your liking. At any stage, again, press Tick when you're happy that's looking good. The next step is to bring out that portrait that we can see is behind. You can go over to the layers and turn those eyes on and off and just get used to them. It took me a while to get used to the eyes, got our landscape layer and our background layer. And you can turn the eyes on and off and get used to those layers. We want to click on the landscape layer. And let's go to this normal bar and set a different blending mode. Click on this bar and I'll give you all these options. As you scroll down, you'll see what these blending modes are doing to that layer. You can choose one that you like. Some of them look great, and some of them they are a bit much. I'm going to go with hard light and there is our double exposure. You can always come back to this layer and you can select a different blending mode at any stage. Now follow along with me and we're going to play with some filters and learn to export as a JP. 4. Project 1B Filters & Exporting: Let's take our double exposure to another level and do something else To make it a little bit more art. I want to make it less about the model. I want to make it more about the feeling. Give it a dream like effect. Let's head down to our layers to the right and right click on the background layer and duplicate it. I want to press, okay, I'm going to turn off the background layer and I'm just going to work on the copy. And we're going to go and we filters up the top. There are many filters, you can of course, play with any of these. We're just going to work on the blur filter, the Gorgazian blur. And you can see it's taking the focus off her eyes. You can play with the different radius and you can see the lower the radius, the sharp, and the higher, the more blur. I'm going to pop it at around 22 so that it still looks like a portrait. It's just blurred her a little, made it a little bit more moody, less of a focal point on the eyes and more about the dreamy landscape press. Okay, when you're happy. Then the next part is exporting it as a J peck. Our first project to export, we go to File Export Export As, make sure it's in Jpeg mode, you can give it a high quality. And I'm going to call it double exposure, project one, I'm going to save it in my project, resources stay with me and we'll do project two. Because it's by repeating things that you really learn and the skill sinks in. You don't need to revert to the instructions all the time. 5. Project 2 Using A Mask & Selecting A Subject : Let's go to file. Let's open our second portrait. I've chosen this one again, It's got some contrast. And then we need to bring in our landscape again. Repeat the steps from the first project. Go to embedded, and let's in landscape number two. And press again. It's horizontal and we want it to be vertical, like our portrait. You can just swivel it however you like it and repeat the steps. It's by repeating these steps that you really get to know Photoshop that little bit better. I've put my height as 100, but my width also needs to be 100. I like to just lock it so it stays, the ratio stays in proportion to the original ratio. Again, over here in my degrees I'm going to put 19 because I want it to be parallel. You can move it around and always know that any time you can go to edit free transform up the top here. And you can transform it. When you're happy, we always need to press this tick and it just commits the transform. Or enter again, we're going to head over to the layers. In this normal bar, we can select our blending mode. It's always fun to run our cursor over and see what works and what doesn't. I'm going to go with soft light for this one. Know that at any time you can come back to this particular layer and you can change the blending mode. Now with this double exposure portrait, I do like it, you could get away with it. Here on the right there is this blob. When we turn off the landscape, we can see it is a person in the background. What we're going to do is we're going to again, repeat the steps. We're going to right click on the portrait and duplicate the layer. And press okay, and turn off the background layer. We're just going to work on this background copy. We're going to give it a layer mask. I love layer masks, but let's have a play with it. And click on the layer mask, and you'll see a little white page pop up next to the portrait. And you've got to make sure that you're actually working on the white page. Then we're going to head over to the left. And we're going to click the brush tool. My brush is this size. If you want your brush to look this size as well, you can put it at 800 pixels up here. Or you might want it to be smaller. And you can use your keyboard shortcut as well. Plusing and minusing the brush with the brackets on your keyboard or up the top here is fine. I've got mine at 700 now, which is great. I'm also going to put the opacity up to 100% Just show you that it's quite harsh. It's a little bit too harsh. Now, I'll turn in the layers, the landscape on, you'll just see that it's too obvious. The finish isn't great. The beauty of a mask is I haven't actually painted on the portrait, I've only painted on the mask. I can swivel back to the tools and I can swivel on this arrow here, between the black and the white. And I can bring back everything again. Have a play with that. Because it's by playing that you really get to know it. That's how I got to know it. Anyway, I'm going to decide with my brush tool, to change the opacity up the top. Come with me up the top. I'm going to take it down to about 24, so it's not so harsh. And make sure I'm on the black. It's just going to get rid of it and not be so obvious so that when we turn on in the layers, we we can see that it hasn't made too much of a difference. Now to make it more precise and so that I don't delete the portrait, I'm going to swivel it back and bring back all the detail by increasing the opacity. I'm going to get you now to move with me to the quick selection tool. Click it. It just selects the subject automatically. It's selected just the portrait I want, the inverse. I'm going to go up the top and select the inverse. Now the background is selected the face and the portrait won't be affected back. Now to my brush tool, I'm making sure I'm actually on the background mask layer, not the portrait, definitely on the white piece of paper, that's what I call it. I'm going to make sure I'm on my black and I'm going to go up to the opacity here and I'm going to bring it back down to the '20s. I'm just going to remove the background, all the dark areas. Now when I head over to my landscape and I turn the eye back on, you can just see I'm still working on it. You just see some of that nature coming through quite nicely, but it's not affecting the portrait. When I turn on the background layer, you'll see what it was originally like. I much prefer it with the mask added to it where it's deleted some of those dark blobs. It's basically given it a lighter background so that, that beautiful detail that contrast in the nature is going to come through. Have a play with that when you're happy. We're going to go up to the Select and we're going to select Command. And just get rid of that selection tool. When you, with your double exposure, it's time to export our project. To head over and repeat the steps and file export as Jpeg export. Let's call it double exposure project number two. When you save it, it will go to your designated Ger. 6. Conclusion: Okay, so that's how you make a double exposure portrait in Photoshop. Thank you for watching. I do encourage you to find another landscaping portrait and follow those steps again, because that's how it sinks in. Do feel free to ask me any questions in the class discussion section and share your double exposure artwork to the class project gallery. And feel free to include any before and afters too. I'd just love to see what you do. I love connecting with your art and learning about your creativity. I'm on Instagram as well, so feel free to connect with me there at my. I'd love to share some of your double exposure artworks on my Instagram story. Do tag me and thank you for watching and keep creating.