Thursday 19 September 2013

Technique Page - Overlay

How to do Overlay...

1. After formatting your camera like normal, you need to take your first photo (this will usual be of a model or large subject).

2. You now need to take another photo that you are going to overlay on top of this image (usually something like a pattern).

3. Once you are happy with the photos that you have taken download them and open them in Photoshop - you are going to need to different images.

4. Change the levels and curves for each photo accordingly before dragging the second image on top of the first (in separate layers).

5. Change the opacity of the top layer until you are happy with the effect.  You can now take the eraser tool set to a soft option and erase certain parts of the overlay (again until you are happy with the effect).

6. Save and print as normal.

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