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How to create amazing double exposures using Blend if

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Double exposure photography is an interesting technique, and there are several ways of achieving this look. You can do it the old-school way of running film through your camera twice or rewinding one negative and taking two exposures. Or you can take advantage of the double exposure feature in most modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. This will allow you to either choose which image you want to use as a base layer or it will show you how the double exposure overlay will look as you take the image.

Finally, the third option is to take two separate images and overlay the two in Photoshop. This can give you a lot more options, however, and there are a lot of tools available to create different looks. In this video, Blake Rudis from f64 Academy walks you through using the command Blend If in Photoshop to create these awesome double exposures.

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This simple Smart Object trick solves “Blend If” transparency issues in Photoshop

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Photoshop’s Blend If sliders are wonderfully useful and powerful tools. They allow us to seamlessly blend two images together with ease, or knock out elements of our images completely. But, they’re not without their quirks. One of those quirks is kind of a double-edged sword. The perk, and problem is that it takes adjustments you make to the image into account before it applies the blend.

This can be very handy when merging two different landscape images together, for example. But it can be completely useless for other purposes. In this 90 second video, Jesús Ramirez from the Photoshop Training Channel shows us a workaround for this. It’s a trick I often use myself for images here on DIYP, especially when compositing product photos onto new backgrounds.

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How to use Photoshop’s “Blend If” feature like a pro

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Blend If is a very useful Photoshop tool. Jesús Ramirez of Photoshop Training Channel calls it “the unsung hero,” and he wants to teach you how to use this handy feature. In his video tutorial, you’ll learn some theory about “Blend If” and how to use it to replace the sky, create special effects and apply textures in Photoshop.

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Making perfect skies with luminosity masks and Blend If sliders

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Masking different layers based on brightness is an often tricky but vital Photoshop skill to have. There’s a bunch of different ways of doing it from the simple to the advanced. Two of the most common methods are by using Luminosity Masks or with Photoshop’s “Blend If” layer options.

While the two might appear to do similar things on a quick glance, there are some pretty distinct differences between the two. Black Rudis from F64 Academy looks into both methods to show us how they work. Each has advantages over the other depending on what you’re trying to achieve. And both will let you do things that the other simply cannot.

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How to reduce noise and more easily work with “Blend if” layer sliders in Photoshop CC

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Photoshop’s layer blending options are some of its most powerful tools but also one of its most frustrating, particularly the “Blend if” sliders.  Designed to help you blend a layer with those below it based on the luminance of colour channels, actually seeing what’s effect it’s having on a layer often can be difficult.

In this video from the f64 Academy, Blake Rudis shows us a technique for dealing with “Blend if” to be able to easily see what part of the image our layer is covering, and applies it to some noise reduction.

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