Multiple Exposure Part 3 - Enhancing Nighttime Photos

In this final part (phew~) you'll learn how to enhance nightshots using similar techniques. Only one image is required, although you can have more of them and stack them on top of each other.

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Step 1 - Load Images

Step 1 - Load Images

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Step 2 - You'll Get This

Step 2 - You’ll Get This

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Step 3 -  Create Layer From Background

Step 3 -  Create Layer From Background

Right click on the locked background layer and select Layer From Background… a mobile layer will be created.

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Step 4 - Duplicate Layer

Step 4 - Duplicate Layer

Select the layer and right click on it. Select Duplicate Layer… to create a copy of the same layer.

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Step 5 - Change the Blending Options

Step 5 - Change the Blending Options

Select the new layer, most probably named Layer 0 Copy, and change it's Blending Mode to Screen.

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Step 6 - Duplicate the New Layer

Step 6 - Duplicate the New Layer

Select the Layer 0 Copy, right click it and then select Duplicated Layer… to create new copies of the layer with their blending options already set to Screen. This saves you the effort to changing the blending mode of each layers individually. The reason why the bottommost layer's blending option is not set to screen because it doesn't matter. Only the layers above it needed to be changed to screen. Duplicate the layers until you've seen the desired result. For me, I've duplicated the new layer 3 times, so I have 4 layers in total. Can you see that the brightness of the image is enhanced? Here is the final image with some touch ups done (to remove noise):

Multiple Exposure Tutorial - Part 3 Final

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And here is the demo file for the last part (13.71mb):

Multiple Exposure Tutorial - Download Part 3

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Hope you all find this tutorial useful! :mrgreen: All kind of comments are welcomed! Have a great week ahead everyone! Hoozah!

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  1. Gravatar Image Nicholas says:

    Thank you for the tutorial. Loves it !

  2. Gravatar Image letti says:

    what can i say, amazing work!

  3. Gravatar Image Rei says:

    hey dude, gosh i owe you at least two unreturned comments. lol. yet again, another awesome tutorial. i was looking through your other posts as well, saw the one with the ice cream pics, yummmmmyyy lol. i always go for the chocochip mint xp

  4. Gravatar Image Grace says:

    Those are very good tutorials! Especially the enhancing nighttime photos one. Keep up the good work!

  5. Gravatar Image yanni says:

    teddy, do you have PS CS3? Any idea whats the difference between CS 2 and CS 3? Cos i just got CS 3 but i havent got the time to explore…

  6. Gravatar Image teddY says:

    Nicholas: You’re welcome! Hope it is of good use to you!

    letti: Thanks for the sweet compliment! Haha :mrgreen:

    Rei: Awww don’t say that. You don’t owe me any comments, since the comments are made upon my own free will ;) haha! Anyways I love chocolate mint too! Maybe because of the mint :D it’s refreshing!

    Grace: Thank you! Hope the tutorial is useful to you :)

    yanni: I think the only major difference is the addition of better functions as we move from Adobe Photoshop CS to CS3. I don’t think they changed the user interface a lot, but I heard that CS3 has a lot more functionality than CS2. One of the major highlights, if not mistaken, is the improvement of Adobe Bridge and support for Raw Images, which both I don’t use :D LOL!

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