I was going home by train one day when I thought of a cool/creepy image. The good thing was that I brought my camera to work that day, and my fellow passenger Marie-Louise was going home as well.
The result (after just a few minutes of Photoshop) is this photo in which Marie-Louise looks at her phone, but her reflection in the window is looking at herself!
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| Marie-Louise's reflection looking at herself |
Making such an image is quite easy. I made two photo's of Marie-Louise, one looking at her phone and one looking outside the window. While doing this I tried to move as little as possible.
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| Photo 1: Looking at phone |
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| Photo 2: Looking outside |
Next I used Photoshop CS 6 to combine the two photo's. I stacked the files by opening them like this: File -> Scripts -> Load files into stack -> Select your files here, and
also select '
attempt to automatically align source images'. If there are enough 'handles' for Photoshop, and the photo's are similar enough, alignment won't be a problem.
Now, the two photo's are aligned and put into separate layers. I put the 'looking-at-phone' image on top and used the eraser (with a feathered brush) to remove the window. Note: before you do this, disable the layer visibility of the other (bottom) layer so you can see what you're doing.
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| Window is erased |
Now, when the window is removed, turn the bottom layer back on to watch the result, and there you go: save the image and your 'creepy-ghost-photo' is done in just a few minutes! :-)
