Create your own twin brother/sister in photoshop in two easy steps

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Do you have a twin brother/sister which looks exactly like you?

After following this tutorial you'll have one.
I will not waste time in explaining what I am talking about, just see the final result yourself and you'll come to know what I am talking about.
Here's the final image that I made using this technique (the boy in the image is my friend) -
Now you might have understood, what I was talking about. To do this trick, you must only know how to open Photoshop and how to shoot pictures from your digital camera. Even a 3 year old baby can do it.

Here's the Tutorial -

Before opening Adobe Photoshop, you will, first, have to take two images of yourself in two different positions, or with different dress or whatever you like but the background must be same. It means, your camera must not move even a little bit.
Therefore it is advised to use a tripod.
Also, you should select a nice place to clone yourself such as a series of chairs where you and your clone are sitting next to each other or a car or a park where you and your clone are sitting in different positions. Your imagination is the only limit.

1. Put your camera on your tripod and set a timer after which it will automatically take picture. Set it to about 10 seconds. After you set the timer, just go and stand or sit or in any position, go in front of the camera and camera will automatically take your picture.

2. Now, don't move your camera. Repeat step (1) again in different position. If you want you can change your dress or anything you want.

You can take many pictures. It depends on how much clones you want to make. Here I'll be creating only one clone.

Here are the pictures, I will be using for the tutorial -

Now you have finished taking pictures, lets move on to Photoshop.

1. Open both the images in Adobe Photoshop.

2. Now select any one of the image and paste it over the other. To select, press Ctrl + A and to paste, press Ctrl + V. When you paste one image over the other, Photoshop automatically creates a new layer for the pasted image and only the pasted image appears because the other image layer is below it.
On the right hand side of the image, you can see two layers in layers pallete.

3. Now, select History Brush Tool by pressing "Y". Just move your History brush Tool over the place where your clone is supposed to be. Just move your hand freely and brush. As you move your brush, you will see the other image which you took start appearing.
Continue moving your brush everywhere until your clone is complete. Be careful not to move your brush over the image which is already present. Only move brush in background because, background is same in both the images. If you move brush over your image, then the background of the image will start appearing as shown in image below(inside a red box).


You can move your brush as many times you want over your clone but not over your other image.

You're done.
So you have just created your own clone in two steps - copy-paste and moving history brush tool.

Here are some good clone examples that can be created using this method -
Photo by Chris

Photo by jurvetson
Comments 5 comments
Nitos said...

Cool!!, i did this, but with another technique, but this seems better, thx!!

Ankush Rajput said...

welcome
u might have done it using layer mask.
Using History Brush Tool is the best trick to make clones.

Unknown said...

can someone tell me where the adobe photoshop template is. i clicked but it gave me a virus. is there a another website that i can do photoshop a twin.

Unknown said...

can someone tell me where the adobe photoshop template is. i clicked but it gave me a virus. is there a another website that i can do photoshop a twin.

Unknown said...

how do you do it

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My Name is Ankush Rajput
I am from India. Only 19 years old studying in college. I like photography and editing images with photoshop. I spend my free time searching for photography tips and exploring photoshop and whatever I learn I share it here.
ankushrajput2@gmail.com

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