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Creating a double exposure effect

Creating a double exposure effect

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Creating a double exposure effect

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- [Instructor] Talking about stacking layers, here is a simple example of the popular double exposure effect. I'm using as my inspiration for this example the cover of Joni Mitchell's Hejira, which is a very fine album and I highly recommend that you check that out. And here is where I'm beginning. So I have my young singer songwriter, and I have an image of a road and we have some type. What I want to do is make a selection of the figure and separate her from the background. I already have a channel prepared for that, so I'm going to come to my channels panel, command, click on that to load it, and then I will make that into a layer mask. Now I will duplicate this layer by pressing command or control J, and on the lower of the two layers, I will select the layer mask and press command or control I to invert it so that we now see the background, but we've separated the figure and the background onto separate layers.…

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