Youtube user Eye Stocker makes a lot of useful Photoshop tutorials and we found this one in particular to be valuable. Even if you are not well-versed in the program, this double exposure tutorial is easy enough for anyone to follow along. And for those already comfortable with PS, it's still full of useful tips and advice.
After all, one of the beautiful things about this Adobe staple is there are a near infinite number of ways too accomplish a task. And it’s always nice to watch someone else achieve an outcome in a completely different way than you might.
To get started, all you will need to make a cool double exposure is two images that pair well, a copy of Photoshop and a desire to learn. There’s also written steps, which some might find easier to follow.
Some misunderstandings here. The first and major one - this is a double exposure. No, it isn't. The second one - I could have done it in camera. No, you couldn't. The third one - I could have done it much more simple. You could maybe avoid using adjustment layers, if you think that is too complicated. But otherwise, no, not really.
Other than that, I am not all that interested in the and result. A bit strange and uninteresting. What do a wood brain pretty girl tell me? Not much.
This is more than a double exposure, done, as it is, with clipping masks, it's a particular variety of collage. A plain old double exposure is much simpler.
I just tried this, and I thought it was pretty cool. Probably nothing new for photoshop wizards, but I actually learned a lot. Thanks DPR, I'm going to follow this guy.
The whole idea of the "selfies" was that you didn't see the results. You were required just to point camera at yourself and friend and try to aim camera right with a single take (or take whole roll) and then you saw the results after while (after days or minute if using polaroid!).
That was the interesting part and whole "soul" of "selfies".
Now the screens and the instant preview is just making them "unfun" really as it is like looking a mirror!
The point with the multi-expose shots is that you don't know what you get! It is that you do not have a greater control over results! It is more of the art of the luck and the moment (like "selfies") instead trying to "perfect" them in post process.
"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents" - Bob Ross
As mush as I admire photoshopper (they are skillful artisan), I prefer to do it camera as good as I can, I just don't like to spend my time in front of computer more than 10 minutes
Post processing is just a tool (albeit a very powerful one), like anything else. Use it wrong, and the results will probably not be the desired ones. Use too much of it, and it will leave a noticeable trace. No tool whatsoever will replace artistic intent, criteria and good taste.
I think tools empower artists that learn how to use them. There is no need to embrace each and every new tool that comes around (to each his own) , as there is no need to negate the validity of a piece of work that makes use of said tool. A good image is a good image, I couldn´t care less if it was made on a phone, a modern DSLR with tons of Photoshop after, an older FIL DSLR, if it´s a daguerreotype or a cave painting... Judging results based solely on the process is as empty an assessment as it is to praise a piece of art based on that same principia alone. A finished image is not inherently better because it used a certain technique, nor is it worse...
Like wise Miike. Even though I have spent 100's of hours using photoshop (mostly for graphic design / posters), I think I have barely scratched the surface of this program in many ways.
I'm in the same boat, I've used PS a lot and do graphic design work as well (though for things like posters/layout, I always use a dedicated layout program) and I certainly don't know all of the techniques used in this short video. I have a feeling that a few of them aren't even available on my ancient CS4 version of the program, but even my older program is plenty powerful with may features that I have yet to play with...
While I won't argue that the final result is nice I always believed that there is sometimes a magical component of an actual double exposure that occurs inside the camera without the pixel level of control of photoshop. The title is technically incorrect too because this isn't a double exposure but the layering of two images into a single composite.
"While I won't argue that the final result is nice I always believed that there is sometimes a magical component of an actual double exposure that occurs inside the camera without the pixel level of control of photoshop. " which is a completely different thing, even when we were doing this in darkrooms.
It's ALWAYS nice when a video author takes the time to provide written instructions ... for those of us whose hearing makes listening to video instructions a frustrating experience.
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