Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to quickly create
a stunning, photographic, double-exposure portrait.
Open a photo of someone that you'd like to use for this project.
If you want to crop your photo, open your Rectangular Marquee Tool
and drag it over your subject. Go to Image and Crop.
To deselect it, press Ctrl or Cmd + D.
To fit your photo back onto the canvas, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0. Next we'll
create a selection around your subject in order to separate it from its background.
There are many ways to do this and I covered them in many of my tutorials. Since this photo
has a white background, I'll use the Magic Wand Tool. If you're using this tool as well,
check "Contiguous" and make its "Tolerance" approximately 30. Click on a white area outside
your subject to make a selection of that area. Go to another white area and Shift-click on
it to add that selection, as well. To check your selection, press "Q" to see it as a Quick
Mask. It you're happy with it, press "Q" again to revert it back into a selection. Then,
invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + Shift + I. Click the Layer Mask icon to
make a layer mask of the selection. Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the New Layer icon to make
a new layer below the active layer. We'll fill the empty layer with white, but first,
if your foreground and background colors aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on
your keyboard. Since white is your background color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete.
Click the thumbnail of your subject to make it active and click the Adjustment Layer icon.
Click "Black White".
Open the Preset fly-out list and click "High Contrast Blue Filter".
Click back on the Adjustment Layer icon and this time, click Levels.
In the Input white field, I'll type in 142.
Drag the Levels adjustment layer below the Black & White layer.
Make the white layer active. Open your other photo that we'll use to create the double-exposure.
To place it into your subject's document, press Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it all and
Ctrl or Cmd + C to copy it. Open your other document and press Ctrl or Cmd + V to paste it in.
Drag your subject's layer mask next to the other photo.
Make your subject active
and change its Blend Mode to "Overlay".
If you want to reposition the image inside your subject,
click off the chain-link icon. This unlinks the photo and the layer mask, which
allows us to resize and reposition the layer and the layer mask independently of each other.
Make the photo active and open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T. If your
photo is larger that your subject, press Ctrl or Cmd + 0 to see the Transform's entire bounding
box. To re-position it, go inside the Transform and drag it. To resize your inside image,
go to a corner and when you see a diagonal, double-arrow, press and hold Shift as you
drag the Transform in or out. To accept it, click the check-mark at the top. Then, fit
your document back onto the canvas. If you want to lighten some dark areas, invert your
foreground and background colors by clicking this icon or by pressing "x" on your keyboard.
Open your Dodge Tool and click Shadows for the Range. The Exposure is 100% and make sure
"Protect Tones" is checked. Open the Brush Picker. We'll take of the size in a moment.
Make the Hardness: 0% and press Enter or Return. To make your Dodge tool smaller or bigger,
press the left or right bracket key on your keyboard. Brush over dark areas you'd like
to lighten. Conversely, if you want to darken some light areas, invert your colors and open
your Burn Tool. This time, click "Midtones" or "Highlights". I'll reduce the exposure
to 25% and brush over those areas.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!