How DO people do this? This is done extremely hastily. I wanted to try the "more than one me" thing and had this idea for the "What can you see (in your dreams)" challenge. As usual, the way I envisioned it was better, but it's due today and it's "radio night" again, which means that in 9 minutes I have to turn this computer over to my darling husband. So this is just an experiment, featuring awkward cloning to try to blur the seam between the halves. Advise on how this is properly done would be very, very welcome.
Creative idea, Mary! I did a multiplicity or cloning shot once...in GIMP which is an online Photoshop type thing. Anything I do in GIMP I have to google how to do it, follow each step and then I forget how I did it because that is not an intuitive/easy program. But I agree with Sue....You put your camea on a tripod and don't move it between the two or more shots..that way, surroundings are in exactly same place. Then, I layered my two shots using GIMP. Then, I "erased" the top layer (which was showing grass ) and I was "under the grass" on that top layer... Video would be best to explain it though!
@suebarni@espyetta Thank you Sue and MaryBeth! I went out to the first link in the discussion Sue mentioned and watched the guy's video. Really interesting. The Photoshop Elements I have and am using doesn't have that stacking feature, but I'm going to file that away in my brain. I want to learn more about masks, but when I did a search of the Help files all it brought up was "unsharp mask" so I may go out to GIMP and explore that. When I was doing this imageI tried layering the two photos, but was having trouble figuring out how to get them both at 100% opacity and have both images of me not showing through the background of the other -- without very laboriously erasing all the background of the one. And I didn't have time to do that -- so I stuck the two halves together. Well, just now in PS Elements, while looking to see of I could do the stacking and masking, I tried out the "magic extraction" on a photo I've previously posted and then put another in the background. That looked cool. I'm going to post it in my "Alternates" album.
July 16th, 2014
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