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1. Intro 1: Hello everyone.
My name is Ahmed. I'm a digital artists and creative director working
from past seven years. I've been very lucky to
work with major brands including United Nations
Real Madrid academy, Pepsi, Government of
Canada are going on. In this class, I will teach you basic techniques and
professional process of creating double
exposure fixtures and art boards with
different methods. This is a master class but double exposure time
revealing all my secrets, different methods and
techniques to create still double explore urine multicore
year surreal artworks. And it's used in different
projects and streamline workflow or editing
double exposure, picture and portrait. In this class you will learn
basic double exposure, advanced double explore
your technique. Triple explore
your technique for the fixture, use of channels. Advanced user, your
Photoshop tools, advanced use of brushes, use of layers, and working
on multiple layers. And high contrast wx for your technique
for the short term. By the end of class, you will have enough skills to create double
exposure pictures. And you can use these
for a number of projects such as
art exhibitions, posters, albums, and for
the commercial tools. So let's start at loss.
2. Select the right picture: So now we will see
what kind of pictures we need to select
further double exposure. We will discuss all the
guidelines for the pictures. So first of all, it's
our main portrait, which these pictures
should be a main portrait. And it should be close up, close up of the board
at node a full body. So then we will use
the close-up portrait. It will be easy to
manipulate it with this, and it will have
lots of detail in our face feature and
it gives best results. More example for our
portrait pixels are for our main picture to create double exposure
effect on disease, we can select more close-ups, close up a little bit
away from the floor. For the secondary picture
to create double exposure, we have to choose pictures
which have high contrast. We can use nature pictures, we can use pictures of
universe, the galaxies. We can use different pictures
that support our idea, but at least these pictures should have high contrast ratio. For example, the
high contrast of white and the green icon
class of white and the green, and high contrast or white. So it will be easy to create the double exposure effect
with these kinds of features. So now we will
discuss what kind of brushes we will use in that
double exposure picture. We will use flatter brushes, and then we will use clouds, smoke brushes, and we
will use the razor tool. You can download
all these brushes in my class resources
I uploaded it. And after downloading it, you can just open your
Photoshop and open any picture. After opening that picture, just click on the brushes
and this white and click on Import Brushes and
go to the folder where you have saved these brushes. I have these two brushes saved. Select both brushes on it. And this generally, we have these brushes in our Photoshop. And After that, we
can start playing with these brushes and creating
double exposure effect. So let's start the class.
3. DE Advanced Part 1: So in this class we will explore how we can create
a double exposure, dreamy picture with
the cloudy effect to create some art works. So let's start the class. Here I have opened
my main picture which we want to double expose. So first of all, we will correct it position and we will crop it a little bit so we can change it according to our dimensions and requirements. First of all, we will
create a new art board, and then we will select
the size of our art board. We can select the size A4, A3, A2, according to
our requirements. So I'm working on A4
size art board and I'm keeping the resolution
to 150 for them, speed line procedure
and smooth workflow. So we will slide
this picture into our nucleophile and
then we will resize it according to our requirement so we can do double
exposures later on. This frame is perfect. To double exposures picture. We have to choose on which bare ground we want
to double exposure weekend, double expose on
white background or double exposure on
black bag around it. It depends on the quality
and it depends on the special requirements from our client for that picture. So first of all, we will select this
layer and we will copy this layer via copy. So we have, we will have
a separate bedroom there. After that, we will
select the other picture we want to insert
in this picture, I have a collection of pixels
here which we can use. So our concept is we want
to convey a message of a dreamy picture with the
universe as far as feeding. So it shows the openness and
wilderness of human bodies. So we will select this picture. We can choose any picture according to our
requirements voter. It depends on what picture
is settling better. So I prefer to use. And then we will
lighten so we see if it's working fine or we have any margins to
play with this picture. You can also change
the mood into darker. It's all about experimenting. Which thing is working
with our team, working with our concept, we have to keep experimenting with first pitcher
or other picture. So we finalize the things. We will select the
multiple colors. A little bit better. Look. The screen as well. Screen is giving a
little bit better look. So and then we will enhance this picture too
all over the body. And then we can use the eraser tool to smooth
line the edges of our chair, who will use gentle
brush tool for the A's. And then we will
select the bombing. Keep the opacity of
your legs around 3036, so you have the margin for
the other connections. And we will start erasing the Stevia to make our
correct and more visible. So this is, this picture is blending
with the hair and giving very perfect and very beautiful
double exposed picture. Look. Just take your time
to keep making the details of our main character
visible with the razor to an after that, we can also use another picture we want to
add in the dream effect. We can use our universe picture. Maybe some trees. In the end, all
about experimenting. Which one is going perfect? For us? We can use this also
as enlightened. And we will use
it over the head. We can a little bit, we can little bit tilted,
rotate this fixture. So start giving more
for us to feeling. This is perfect at retail. And now this is, this is making, we are learning something. This is creating some override little bit where we see it's perfect and then we will raise some margin according to
our requirement again. And after that, we will also use some other pictures
to explore more, to create it more interesting. Maybe we're going to add
the universe element in the black part
of our picture. And we can multiply it again. Maybe we can lighten it. Or we can choose to
screen it, shortens it. Maybe we can we can
apply darken. Let's see. Where are we, in which
direction we're going on. Then we can add a clipping
mask in this picture. This picture is not
working for our artworks, so we can select
another picture. Good start, I told you it's
all about experimenting. Where our planet
in florid duct is reaching or we are getting
our final product. We just started their
own that point. So keep experiment always
say when you are exposing, we're playing, you are creating
double exposure effect. You have to keep
experimenting with this. So it will, it
will give you some reasonable in this area. Then we can use again,
it is a picture, but is there too as
well to certain bits. And then we can see
how it's working. We can also multiply it. Or maybe we can overlay it. So they are overlays,
which is perfect. If you are working on
a white background, then use the daylight pictures. And if you are working
on the black background, then you can use compositions. So these things can work. After that, we will
select this layer, our main Portrait Layer, and copy this layer and
leave the previous one. And then we will select all our compositions
and commodity and resize it a
little bit so we can give it more artwork style look.
4. DE Advanced part 2 : And then we can change the composition of
our three little bit. So it starts giving a
field of professional fee. And after that, we'll select the newly created
our brush tool. And we will go to our brushes and select the smooth brush. After selecting the small brush, we can just change the
background into white and start applying a little smoke
effects on our picture. Increase the size of your brush. And also create another layer
and apply the smoke effect, glow effect on the
background as well. And then lower the
opacity of this layer. So it starts giving you
some sort of effect, some sort of style
in our illustration. And then we can refine it. For example, we select
the eraser tool and start refining the face
where it's connecting. Increase the opacity of our picture and then
we can refine it. Similarly, we can define
the white space as well. After that, we will go to
the brush and we will select our water supply water brushes to create a background
for this picture. So we will select the prominent
color in our background. Create another
layer, and we will select the prominent colors from the background and start
applying this on the picture. Then we can keep this
the L behind our name. So it mostly with it like this. Or we can apply
between an overlay or slip this and we can, we can refine these anytime our to-do application like this. So we, our main point is to
merge it with the background. We can choose different brushes. We have difference of letters which you
can choose perfect, which is working perfect
for your artwork. You can choose that picture and apply those effects over it. And apply multiple
times this picture. And after applying over it, we can change the
opacity of our workflow. It's all about experimenting
with the word. So now we will try to build a base background on the
behind of our portraits so far now we will unhide
this deodorant and hide this layer and start working on our main layer to build a
bag or above the portrait. So far this we will
select our brush, select the eraser and use the super letter tip further it is there as well and start
them some background. So it gives, start giving us some Merge Group for
our main bedroom, main image. Later style loop. And then after it we can add more splitters with
our brush tool. Just like the prominent and starts flip the direction of subletting should
be very interesting. So it creates drama
in our picture. Because all we are working for
the drama in this picture. So it becomes very creative. It gives us a message and
gives us our emotion. So we will replace our tip again and we'll apply some letters. And then we can resize all
our gears into short layer. So we have more
space to work on. We will resize it a little bit. So we will have a breathing
space in our artwork. Greetings phase is very
important the artworks, because they gave us space
to breathe our portrait and up back and create a difference between background
and foreground. So after it we will apply, we can create another layer and we will apply
more spreaders. We can change the direction
of vectors as well. Gene the direction
change some colors, so it gives variety in
our work and our stuff. After finalizing it. Now, we can refine this. We will create another layer. We keep this layer over
the portrait, refine it. Then we will select
our simulator tool, and then we can add another in our kitchen to define the
edges of our portrait. Keep this layer on front. Fine, is perfect. Then the size of
that a little bit. To really start merging
with the picture. And picture is almost most. Then we will create
another layer. We will use the bag again and see you what
impacts they are giving. Just a little bit too fast
to lower the opacity, just keep these layers and just for the
refinement of products. And then we'll apply
our white layer. We don't need the application of widely or we will
create another layer. And we'll add some
sky in our portrait, in our works for your portrait. So we will go to the brushes
that we will look forward. The sky brushes here
we have style brush. Increase the size
of our, alternate, our brush, the
size of our brush, and then we use the white color. For the sky. Will try to add a
little bit of mist and see what's happening. After that, we can increase of sharing these the
elements of our background. Also. In my opinion, this is not
working with this picture, so we will delete it. It ended the background
with the help of splitters. So we will again go to the glitter letters and start
creating another variable. This picture only
select the black layer. And in place the side
of splitter little bit. We can use multiple colors,
multiple objections. And then we will lower the
best in decline or glitter. So now we have facing
a problem here. We will erase the edges of
this picture so modest, don't. And we will see where
the problem is coming. We need to do that. And after that, we can
load the opacity of this. They just give us
a slight texture, slightly slide background. This is slide background. And then behind that cloud
layers, where is our clothes? These are our folder. We can create another new
layer behind that lonelier. And just a little bit of
splatter behind the clouds. Clouds became a
little prominent. And then we will lower
the opacity of it. And it is the inner
part of clouds. So our double explore
years stay in focus. Then we will refine
that clouds as well. Splitter razor. And after it we will create a selection and gave a border. Will create a
selection and select Inverse and create
a new layer to provide border to our artwork
and then apply your sign, whatever you are in the artwork. This, this is how we
can create cloudy, dreamy wx for your picture.
5. DE by useing Channels: So now we will explore
another technique with how we can expose pictures with
the use of channels. To use this technique, we need to choose
pictures which are portrayed and which are
mostly black and white. If you have voted and
she's not black and white, you have to make
it black and white first before using
that portrait. So I prefer first picture as our friend profile and the other picture
as a side profile. So let's start the class. So here I have a
portrait picture. I will put it on my timeline
and resize it to size. And then we will apply the
black and white filter on it. So now it's black and white. We can change the requirements
of our black and white, but try to keep it
black and white. After that, we will take a little bit to apply
a black and white effect. And there's perfect. And now we will apply our
second picture on it, which is already black. We will use this mixture
and increase it. So for. So after that, we will select our first layer and go
to the blending option. And then we will take down the blue channel and turn
off the green channel as well and keep the red channel own technique of
mixing channel works. We will turn on the red
channel only and we will keep the other
channel for this picture, for the second picture. So far this we
will just turn off the red channel and it will
start exposing to each other. And we can re-size the size of our picture according to where it's cutting
suitable for us. Here we can apply it
where it gets started. Interesting. So this is how
we can use this technique. And then we can refine it also according to
our requirements, according to our dependencies, according to our situation. So I select Eraser tool
and I remove this. So it's showing exactly
double exposed, dutifully devil exposed picture. We'll explore another option of this picture where both
pictures are black background. So we'll select this picture. Then we will select the picture. And we will try to double-check
schools these pictures. So far just set the size
of these pictures same. Settles the sizes and create a composition
for these pictures. After creating the composition, we will go to the
same procedure. First of all, roster
both pictures, and then go to the
blending option and select the turn
off the red channel. I don't know. You just keep all the
green channel and blue channel and keep
on the red channel. So now this is giving a very interesting looped
and very interesting effect. So for this, we will turn
off the red channel, the green and pollution. We can keep experimenting where it's giving
us a perfect loop. We will keep it there. Also. We are playing
with in dark color form. So we can keep this picture
black and white first. So we will get better results. We will make this
picture black and white. And then we will play
with the channels. We played the wiki on the channel of the red channel
for the other picture. So we will close the red
channel for this picture. Then we will see where it's giving us the perfect deserts, where it's giving us the
results we want, we desire. Then we will smooth
line these pictures. We will lower the opacity and clear the picture
a little bit. So we can get a little
details in this picture. This is how we can apply
separation of channels. We can apply different channels
and different pictures to create a double
exposure effect. It is the NPV. The details, try to give
some details alive. Apply the eraser tool where
there is the shadows. So it will create more and easily give you a
detail in your fixture. So it's all about experimenting. After finalizing or
forward product. Our picture we
will just save it. Will save it as a project. And we can name it according
to our demand requirements. And we will now study another
example for this picture. We can just start with
this picture and resize this picture according to our requirements,
the literature. So this is our main picture. And then we can apply
another picture on it. We can use this picture. Seems very interesting. So we can use this
picture over it. And then press B for the
brush tool and apply on it. So laughter. And then go to the blending
option and keep the red, green, and blue channel. And for the other picture, keep the channel off
and keep on green. And so it's perfectly
exposing each other and creating a very beautiful, very
surrealistic look. The look we want in our art. Afternoon. You can
just, it is showing. Then you can keep the composition of this
picture according to your requirements and carries a perfect result of our
double exposure technique. But as usual for
different channels. And after that, you
can say this picture as a DJ and use it for
commercial purposes. But the artwork for the vendors.
6. Triple Exposure Technique: So now in this lesson we
will explore how we can create a triple exposure picture with the help of channels. So first of all, we will select all
our three pictures we want because we are creating a triplex for you and then
resize them on our background. Keep in mind that when we are exposing WAS four
years or we are doing triple X four years with
the help of our channels, with the play of channels, then we have to keep
our pictures black. Try to keep your food, your pictures in
black and white. So these are our pictures. We will like this one. And then we choose this picture, whatever
second exposure. And then we will, first of all, we will
create double exposure. Select this layer, and
go to blending options, and turn on the red channel. And then select
the second layer, go to Blending Options, and then turn on green channel. And then resize it
according to your style, according to your demand. And then select that third
lecture we will use, I will use this picture
as my third picture. Resize this picture
again according to your style and effect. Increase a little
bit of leverage it so it became all black. And then go to its
blending option and just keep the blue channel. So this is how we developed a triple,
explore your picture, and then we can change
its composition, refine it more better way. This is very interesting effect. And it's very famous to create film posters and
animated film posters. And for the art works. This is how we can create the
triplex for your pitches. If we see anything
like these bars, we can use the eraser tool. And with the help
of eraser tool, we can clear these sections. And after they're just
save your picture. But it just go to the file. And Francois me to teabag and use any name you
want to name this artwork. I'm applying to, to explore
your project and save it. Here is our final result
of our triple X project.
7. Advance Dark DE Part 1: So now in this lesson we will
explore how we can create a Advance Black Bear grounded
wx for your picture. So let's start the class. I have this portrait especially captured for the
next four years. Just resize it so it gets
into the references and into other dimensions where
we want to double exploded after death,
select another portrait. So the theme of double exposure portrait is we want to portray some conserved. We want to deliver some
message through this artwork. For me, I'm delivering the representation of
nature and universe. So I have the pictures of
nature and university here. I will try to use these pictures and manipulate these pictures
with our portrait. I think this picture will work perfect for this because it will show the light coming from
the body or power portrait. So after that, we will play with that overlays all of our opacity layer
styles of our layer. Select if it's working
in the lightened mode. Or maybe it's working
in multiple mode. We will, we will see we are working with which
farmers working. We will choose that form. So it's not working in
the lightened mode. We'll select maybe
it's working in the overlay or soft light. So we will see, we will keep seeing the
options where we can, we can play with data,
we can merge with it. But here we don't see any
options were killed for it so far now we will
apply it, leave it here, and we will start
editing with it, selected our main portrait, and select the
selection of the body. A little bit. After we will use the
selection tool for this. And then after that, we will create a selection of it and cleared clipping
masks for this selection. And after that, we will
use the eraser tool. And we will increase the opacity of our size of our
raise it and increase the opacity of our result
degrees to 36. Slowly. Merging our blending
our background with our picture slowly. So it will start giving the
highlights of our picture. After that, we can also use the splatter brush
tip as a razor. I will add these brushes in the resource section of our class so you
can download it and use it to very easily keep the opacity of our brush
200 and decrease the size. And just apply a little bit so it start enhancing
that details. Select another picture we
want to double exports, but for most of these pictures, so we keep our
timeline, our Layer, Layer Style, our
working workflow, very neat and clean. After that, we have
different pictures. Try a different pictures
which are working perfect. We can use this picture
if it's working. We'll select the lightened mode. What's not working in
the lightened mode? We can select the soft light and it's working somewhere
in the soft light. And we can, we can start
creating some sort of message with the hard light. So it's all about experimenting
with the picture. Increase the size of
fixture little bit. And it's giving a
perfect message. And after that, just use
the eraser tool to merge down with your portrait. After it, we can use our third for a pitcher to
double exposure. I'm using the universe. We will increase
the size of this. And we will apply a multiple
layer layer or our supreme. It's all depending on which, which thing is working for, which thing is working for our rich layer style is
working for our portrait mode. I will keep it on
normal and lower its opacity just slightly. And then with the eraser tool, we will increase, highlights the details
of our portrayed. Use the eraser tool and
use the tip of our laser. And it will highlight
our background. It's a little better. You can also try
the screen mode was working better and play
with the opacity to develop a scene that we'll explore here
on the Dot Diagrams.
8. Advance Dark DE Part 2: After that, we will try to blend our manipulation
little bit more. So here we will use
the eraser tool. To blend our animation. We will lower the opacity or Power Eraser tool to
blend it a little with the body and use
this part lambda. And after it, we will try to add another picture in this to
create Coriolis effect. Use this picture
of the universe. And we try to do a
little bit tough tilted. So it's like this in the body of our figure, our main collector. And then we will play with dark layer options where it's working or certainly
with our team. And after that, we will
increase the size, just a little
increase in the size. So now after it, after applying the Layer
Style on our universe, now we will try to blend
this with our main image and we will use the eraser
tool for both images. And we will merge layers
and use soft light again. Then we will use the eraser tool to
merge it with our main. Our main object will lower the opacity to
blend it more better way. And after that, we will create another layer and try
to merge it again. So it gets a little bit
more Universe detail of the galaxy in our picture. But also our main character main phase
picture remains same. And then after it we will clear this
picture a little bit. This layer. So our main focus of our
face became more prominent. And after that, we'll try to experiment with
this picture a little bit. For example, if we make another layer of
our main character and duplicate this layer, it will turn into the black and, and make it into the
black and white. It will keep very realistic
and very beautiful. So the whole team of our
illustration change, certainly. And then we will centralize
our composition. And also we can change
the SD and background. Also, we can change the opacity of this image a little bit
to make it more prominent. And add another image. This section to make
it more prominent. Here. In this way. This section. Then we can change its opacity. And with the razor tool, you can blend it
with our main image. So it's all about our drawing skills,
our blending skills. And then we will use the razor tool to blend
it more better way. Increase the opacity of our
splatter brush a little bit. So to get blunted,
which is a tomato. And after that, we will change
its position little bit. And up to date with
the eraser tool, we will blend it a
little more. Again. This part, we'll keep
our opacity around 36. Blend. Seamlessly. No, it's
looking for, for, so this is the way we can advance or create advanced
double exposed pictures. And often creating it, we can just go and
save our teacher. So there are
different options we can manipulate this
picture still. We will group all
of this picture and create another group and create this group of Convert
Smart Object, Convert to Smart Object. So we will have a flat
layer and we will have this diagram later as well, the procedure and for
the emergency use. And then we will create
the main layer rasterize. We will decrease its
size a little bit. And then we will use the simulator tool to
create a white background, very artistic loop
for this picture. Just create a new layer
and theater white over it and starts letting increase the eraser
opacity to 100%. And select this layer and
apply splatter brushes. So this will create
a very beautiful, very rigid splitting effect. And it's a very
beautiful technique. I use it to majorly
in my art works. And it gives very beautiful,
very surrealistic effect. And most of the clients
loved this style. Just increase its size later. And play with the
splatter brushes. It takes time. You can take your
time and do it with the order that we can change the default
splatter brushes. We have different styles, different types of brushes to create a variation
in our illustration. And after that, need the edges and need the
AVL that we don't need. So this is how we can create a double
explore your artworks. And even after this, now we transform this to a
white background, our artwork. And then we can use create a new layer and use
the brush tool, use smoke tool to
add some clouds and stared some artificial
extra effects on our manipulation
that will increase the beauty of our manipulation. We can always keep
experimenting with this nor the size of the brush. And keep playing with
the brush styles. We can use this brush as
well to create a smoke. So this is how we can use. And even I create a new layer
and create a dark clothes, little dark clothes off. So then we can refine
that clothes again. The eraser tool. And we can do fine main AD or flower illustration as well. This is all about
double exposures are all about experimenting. And then what we want to convey a message
we want to give. Then we reach to the point
where our message is given. We are, we, we are ready
to give our message. We finalize it. So now it's finally, we will save it as another option for our
double exposure to chips. So this is, this is the way
we can create a device to double extra pictures with different styles,
with different types.
9. High Contrast Technique Quick Method: So now we will explore our
WX for your technique, which is known as high contrast. In this technique, we use high contrast pictures which have high ratio of
white and other colors. For example, this picture, for example, this picture, this picture, this picture, these pictures get to give us double exposure
effect very quickly. And these pictures are
very easy to create double exposure pictures due to the philosophy behind
that double exposure. Because we can use the lighter layer that easily grow up and get blended
with each other. So let's start. First of all, we will
select this picture and please sizes, dimensions. After that, we will select
our end of the lecture. I'm selecting this
fixture and then resize the size of
this picture a little bit according to
our requirement. And then select the green style, or we can select light
and for this picture. So you'd start generating a double exposure
effect already. And then we will use
the eraser tool. To clean this effect. Select the razor tool, select the opacity around 34, and start applying on an
area that you want to focus. Just take your time. It's a very quick and
easy way to create the pollex four-year
pictures with time, but giving this technique
a little more time, we will make this effect
the only perfect. And after it, we will use another double
explores picture. Will use this picture
for now and resize it down to our connector. And then soft light
it or lighten it. And now we can see this is a perfectly doubly exposing
with each other. We will increase the size of
this picture a little bit. And now it's blended
with our correctors. And after that, we will clean the background of
all the pictures. Increase the brush opacity
200 per cent again, and start cleaning your clothes. So this is the way we can create double exposure
pictures in easy way. And after finalizing
your mixture, just increase the size. D. This technique is
very famous to create album art covers the
music session and stuff. And after finalizing this, go to File and go
to the same name, this whatever you want, I will name it Project
for and save it. So this is the final result of our double exposure high
contrast technique, which is very easy to
do and very easy to do. But we need to focus
that we choose bright pictures with the white background
and black and white. And we choose the natural
pictures also with brightfield, bright background, which
have high contrast ratio, give the white color
to any other color. Thank you.
10. Final Project & Results: So here is the final
result of our class. If you have any question
regarding the class, you can ask in the
discussion section of the class for the class
project below my procedure, then create a double
exposure portrait of yourself or your friends. Also show before and
after of editing. When you finalize your portrait, you can use different pictures. Are pictures from the
project resources or from your own guilt. And follow all the procedure. First of all, you have to select a main portrait picture and then select the double
exposure to here, and then edit this
picture and apply it. And then save it as a JPEG. And after editing subject in
the class project section. So I can give you feedback
and critique and get a chance to win Amazon gift card or
Instagram Photoshop preset. Thank you.