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Picture in picture

Nov 24, 2009 7:51AM PST

I knew a film photographer that would take a picture of something like a landscape, then over the same frame take a picture of a person. There must be a way to do this with digital editing. I can paste a picture in another picture, but it isn't the same. Any suggestions for improving picture on picture?

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Film Photography
Nov 24, 2009 12:07PM PST

Some film cameras would let you do double exposures.
Digital cameras will not let you do that.

Using an enlarger with film, you could also superimpose one photo onto another.

An enlarger for digital cameras is a software package called Photoshop by Adobe.

You can do just about anything your imagination wants with digital manipulation with Photoshop.

Photoshop is very powerful and it takes a long time to be proficient with the software.

But there are hundreds of tutorials that explain how to do "whatever" with Photoshop.

Here are some:

http://tinyurl.com/yaoeoxj

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Superimposing one digital image on another in Camera
Mar 12, 2010 2:16PM PST

I have an Olympus E-30 DSLR which has this facility. The E-620 also allows this. Suggest you read some reviews of the cameras on the Web to help you further.

Dave Heard

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Photoshop
Mar 12, 2010 4:39PM PST

You can use layers and masks to do pictures in pictures. This one I use Photoshop to put together a portrait I took at home and a photo I took in Disneyland, to make a more interesting Halloween costume photo.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/hjfok/Knight/IMG_9373_1_1copy.jpg
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/hjfok/Knight/IMG_2187_1copy2.jpg

There is also Chroma Key or more commonly known as green screen, which can be a plug-in for Photoshop or a stand alone program. Here is a photo that I use a chroma key software and do this in just a couple of minutes:
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u45/hjfok/Isaac%202009/IsaacLeaningontheMoon.jpg