STEP BY STEP MULTIPLICITY PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL

STEP BY STEP MULTIPLICITY PHOTOGRAPHY TUTORIAL

FROM: http://photographytricks.com/step-by-step-multiplicity-photography-tutorial/

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Step 4: Photoshop Post-Production.

After you’re done taking the pictures, you’ll need to combine all the frames.

Import your files into Photoshop

Click “File”-> Scroll down to Scripts -> Select “Load files into stack” -> Click “Browse” -> Select the photos that you took -> Click OK. Leave the two boxes unchecked (since you used a tripod, you won’t have to worry about aligning the images).

Using Layer Masks

Now that you have all of the pictures that you took in different layers, you’ll need to select each layer and add a layer mask to each one. There’s a little button down there that says “Layer Mask”, click that on every single one.

Next, start with the top layer and click on the “Layer Mask” to activate it.In other words, you don’t want the actual layer selected, just the Layer Mask selected. The Layer Mask is white, so you want to use a black paintbrush and paint over the subject. Click B and D to select the brush tool with black as the foreground color.

The shadows in there look a bit weird, so use a soft brush to even that out:

Now that the subject is gone, click on the “Layer Mask” to select it and press Control + I to invert it. This will invert the layer mask, so now you will see two instances of the subject:

Repeat what you did to the top layer to all of the remaining layers until you’re done and then you’ll have your own multiplicity photo.

Final Edits

When you’re all done, go up to Layer ->Flatten Image -> and it combines all the layers. You might also want to crop your image a little, adjust the brightness and the colors, use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove little distractions that aren’t really necessary, and so on.