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Photography: What to know about dual exposure technique

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Many of the editing techniques that are used in Photoshop were born&comma; in fact&comma; well before the software itself was invented in the days when there was only analog photography&period; This is the case&comma; for example&comma; of double &lpar;or multiple&rpar; exposure&comma; a result that began as a defect and ended up being adopted by many photographers as an art resource&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">What is double exposure&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You can set the dual exposure as the effect that happens when two different scenes are shown on the same picture&comma; that is&comma; they are superimposed&period; This happened when the film was not rotated correctly and the camera actually ended up registering two photos in the same space of the negative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The idea is not to show a scene neatly but to merge several elements into a &&num;8220&semi;neat mess&period;&&num;8221&semi; With <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;skylum&period;com&sol;blog&sol;10-tips-for-double-exposure-photography" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">double exposure photography<&sol;a> you can shoot the same person twice&comma; a motion scene&comma; multiple angles of the same scene&comma; and more&period; With the double &lpar;or multiple&rpar; exposure&comma; there are not many rules and you can create surreal scenes and quite relaxed&comma; just having creativity and determination to learn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>But I do not shoot with film&comma; what now&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Even though multiple exposure is originally a feature of analog photography&comma; Photoshop is always ready to help anyone who wants to do this with their digital photos&period; And the best part is that it&&num;8217&semi;s extremely simple to do double exposure using the software&comma; even though the result is not perfect &&num;8211&semi; double-exposure photos made with film are still more beautiful and creative in most cases&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In fact&comma; the process is so simple that you do not even need to use the Adobe editor&semi; however Photoshop tools are more complete and easy to use than other publishers&period; To prove this&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll teach you how to do double exposure using Photoshop and also Pixlr&comma; one of the best online editors&period; However&comma; before you begin&comma; it is important to choose the images correctly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Choosing the best picture<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There is no rule for this because you can mix any photograph in this technique&semi; however&comma; for better results using Photoshop&comma; some tips may be helpful&period; For example&comma; it is interesting to merge images of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;skylum&period;com&sol;blog&sol;family-photography-in-5-simple-steps" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">family photography<&sol;a><b> <&sol;b>that contain light-dark contrasts&comma; so that software blending modes work better&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In this case&comma; silhouettes work very well and allow wonderful effects&period; Using sky patterns and images can also be an interesting option&comma; especially if you want to do a multiple merge&period; The truth is that&comma; although the process itself is simple&comma; you must try several times and with several images until you find the one that fits perfectly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Using Photoshop<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There is not much secret in the process of creating a double exposure in Photoshop&semi; as you might be wondering&comma; what you should do is to use the layer merge to achieve an interesting effect&period; We suggest you to use a very old version of Photoshop &lpar;CS2&rpar;&semi; however these tools are practically the same in any more recent update&period; Once you open the background image&comma; you can use your preferred method to open another image above&period; You can do this using the &&num;8220&semi;Place&&num;8221&semi; option in the &&num;8220&semi;File&&num;8221&semi; menu or you can open the second image in a separate window in Photoshop and drag your layer into the first one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are still many things you have to learn&comma; but the principles above are the beginning of all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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