Double Exposure with Photoshop

*Featured image is from Taylor Swift’s Style MV

Here is a list of things that I will be using in this tutorial:

Miranda Kerr Photo

Branches Photo

Ocean Photo

1. Use the magic eraser tool under eraser to get rid of the background. Zoom in and use normal eraser to erase and perfect the remain of background near the hair.
2. Resize the canvas to make it larger.
3. Create a layer under the Kerr portrait layer, and fill it with white.
4. Double click the white layer, and select gradient overlay. Click on gradient, and select the second preset which i circled. Click on the scale and select a gray color.
5. Change the style to radial, and click OK.
6. Bring in the branches image. Resize and rotate the branches image so that it covers the Kerr portrait photo.
7. Select-color range-select color white-fuzziness set to 200-click OK-press delete.
8. Double click the branches layer-inner glow-change the parts where I circled. This step is to get rid of the remaining white areas in-between the branches.
9. Double click the Kerr portrait layer-mask.
10. Double click on the highlighted part-shift+ctrl+i (Mac: shift+command+i) to inverse select the branches.
11. Make the branches layer invisible-click on Kerr portrait layer mask-select brush tool-start painting.
12. Bring in the ocean view photo-adjust the size and rotate it however you like-create a clipping mask of the Kerr portrait layer-change to screen and adjust the opacity.

Here is the final product:

If you want more examples of this kind of photo, you can check out Taylor Swift’s Style MV, which is filled with double exposure techniques.