Double Exposure Photography

Posted By Guest on January 07, 2010

One of the oldest tricks in the photography book revisited
Double Exposure Photography

Brian Auer

A double exposure is a relatively simple photography trick that can be used to achieve all sorts of fun effects - ghosts, fake twins, mirror images or something as simple as superimposing a backdrop of trees into a romantic scene.

While most digital cameras don't have the ability to create a double exposure, creating a double exposure in Photoshop or another photo editing tool, such as GIMP, is relatively easy. In Photoshop, open both images. Copy and paste one image over the other. You have now created a file with multiple layers, with a foreground image laid over your background image.