N-Photo: the Nikon magazine

A fine balancing act

One of the most fun things you can do with Photoshop is blend photos into an entirely new image. This can lead to all kinds of weird and wonderful results, but it’s not all about making double exposures, or blending a crocodile with a kitten, or sending your granny to the moon!

Sometimes it can be just as eye-catching to craft a subtle composite from slightly altered versions of the same scene. This is exactly what we’ve done here for our precarious portrait.

We need a series of shots with slight changes: one of the subject perched on a ladder, another of the stack of chairs, and a couple of frames to fill in the gaps. By shooting these frames all in alignment with a tripod – and with

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