Picture in Picture

[musicguy1982]

In this tutorial I plan to show you how to get a picture inside a picture inside a picture. This is my final result:


I started with these 2 photos: All you need is a picture in a frame.



I took what I wanted to be the inner picture and used the polygonal lasso tool to select the inside of the frame.

You might want to expand your selection by 3 pixels or so to make sure you don't have any of the original picture left.

[musicguy1982]

Then I deleted that part of the picture.


Then I did the same thing with what I wanted to be the outer picture:



After that, I copied the inner picture as a layer under the outer picture, and transformed (ctrl t) holding shift to keep the same ratio.

[musicguy1982]

After that I merged the layers together.


Then copied that layer.


Transform the new layer (underneath).


Then lather, rinse, and repeat until the quality is so low, you cannot see the blank space. I think I only had to add the layer once or twice more.

Then I cropped it and used a black and white layer to achieve the final result.

[gmmeyerIII]

Really cool idea!

[sjakes]

I love shots such as these..... very nice!

[GuruBhai]

Thanks a lot -- the other day i was trying some thing similar but with computer screen.
Got stuck in between, now i think i can do that.

[moon]

Great Idea and an even better description on how you did this.
Thanks for your time and efforts in sharing this with us.

Gaz

[jamesrdroy]

very detailed tutorial. And the stepwise pics will make this so easy for even a dummy like me to be able to do it. TFS.

[phaither]

awesome! and you make it sound so easy. i just got Photoshop elements and i'm feeling a little overwhelmed.....,

[Ubergeek]

lol not as good as yours, but it sure is fun lol



Regards.