Difficulty level: Easy
Time taken: 2 Hours
All images © Lauren Scott
As a technique, double exposure photography is nothing new. It has existed since the early days of film when, traditionally, the same slide was exposed twice to produce a superimposed image. In the digital age, the effect can be reproduced using a camera with a dedicated Multiple Exposure mode.
However, if your camera doesn’t have a dedicated mode, or you want more creative control over the final image, you can also mimic the effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll discover howtechnique, as well as how to edit the two images in Photoshop for a striking and abstract result. One of the great things here is that you don’t have to shoot your portrait and overlay images at the same time. If you have the perfect fill-in image within your archive, it’s easy to have a go – provided you have a camera with manual shooting modes and a willing subject.
