9/10/18
The topic for this week is Double Exposure. I tried a bunch of different effects, but eventually chose this one to enter for the challenge. Years ago, I found Microsoft clip art image of several ballerinas in a line, each folding a different position and saved it in my library.
I made four copies, and masked out the back ground of each one and added a light drop shadow. That lone didn’t quite do the trick, so I headed over to AdobeStock, and searched for tutu (after all, we are are taking about ballerinas ;-) I found two in shades of pink and purple; one that covered about half the image and the other that took up the whole frame.
I started by filling the background with a shade of pastel pinky purple from the tutu image. I then added the half-filled frame under the ballerinas and made it bigger. flipped it upside down, and used the blend-if slider so the white background didn’t show. I blurred the image a bit so it wouldn’t distract from the foreground.
I put a copy layer of the full frame tutu over each layer of a ballerina. I blurred it quite a lot so just the shades of color would show. I clipped each to the ballerina below, and reduced the opacity of each tulle layer to 90% — that allowed just a hint the details on the girls. I topped the whole thing off with a hue and saturation layer; turning down the saturation just a bit, and adding a touch of darkness.
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