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WOAH, IS THAT A BOB ROSS ORIGINAL?!?!


Now i already know what you're thinking: "Hey Dylan, i think there's a problem with your picture. A bob ross original is showing through bob ross!". That's no happy accident, its actually called a double exposure. i know i know, you're probably thinking, "Hey Dylan, whats a double exposure?!?!" Well you see, a double exposure, is when you take two or more images, like bob ross and a bob ross original painting, and make it seem like one image is showing up through the other. Woah, i know crazy; thats at least what i thought at first when Ms. Turner showed me how to do it. my mind actually was blown and the school nurse had to put it back together like humpty dumpty. Now i know your next question "Hey, Dylan, how many more of these things where you guess what we're thinking are there going to be? But also, how does one create a double exposure." Well the answer to your first question is only once or twice more, but to answer the second part, well it's actually pretty easy. the first thing that I did, was found two related images. they dont have to be related per se, but it is better if they are. The next step is to open them in photoshop. you may have to rasterize them first, but that's simple to do. After i had the photo i wanted to show through on top of the other photo in the layer panel, i clicked on the top one and then went down to the bottom where i then selected "add vector mask". What this does is it hides one layer behind the other, and then i could make it show through. in order to make it show through, i selected what ms. turner likes to call a "fuzzy brush" and started to paint white in order to make the painting show through. Since i only wanted the painting to show through Mr. Ross' afro, on the layer he was on, i used the group selection tool to select the afro and then clicked back to the mask and started painting. i had the brush on a 50% opacity so that the painting didn't show through all at once. Now you're probably asking "Hey Dylan, but what if you made to much of the painting show through? How would you fix that?" Well first i'd say "Woah, that's a pretty specified sentence in the form of a question ." but if i did make too much show through, i would simply just paint black on that part, and it would go away. and that is actually all the steps to creating your own double exposure. Now i know what you're thinking "Hey Dylan, this better be the last time this happens where you do the 'i know what you're thinking thing', but also WOAH, THAT'S PRETTY CRAZY AND SIMPLE!" and to that id say "yes, yes it is"


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