Question on what question to ask

[tward88]

Ok I know what I want to do, but I do not know what it is called, which makes it really hard to find out how to do it. Kind of like in grade school asking the teacher how to spell a word and her telling you to go look in the dictionary. Never have understood the logic of sending someone to look up a word they don't know how to spell in a book that assumes you have to know how to spell it ...But I digress. My question is this:

I have seen pictures, particulary of sports, where the image of the same player is shown multiple times within the same picture as they move across the background. I would like to know what you call this technique and if anyone knows how to do this in Photoshop Elements.

[SmartWombat]

To me it's multiple exposures.
You have to do it without moving the camera, or adjusting zoom, exposure etc.
Then you put them in layers and mask out all but the player in each image.
Use a single background (with one image of the player) not slices of each image.

In detail, I don't know how to do it properly.
Because I'm really bad at using layers !

[tward88]

I think i found what I need in elements 6.
here is the first rough attempt. It will take some fine tuning but it is close to what I am looking for.
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[SmartWombat]

Yes, that's pretty good for a first go !
I think you need a bit more separation between the images.
Most cameras in burst mode are too fast to do this, and you do not get enough space between the poses.

Now you've found it, can you explain how you did it?

[tward88]

Thanks SmartWombat, I had the same thought as you about the spacing so I took one shot out of the sequence and I think it looks much better.

I used the Photomerge Group Shot tool under File---> New (elements 6)
Here is what I think is a better version.

[GB1]

Never have understood the logic of sending someone to look up a word they don't know how to spell in a book that assumes you have to know how to spell it

I'm happy to read that someone else on the planet has noticed the irony that I had with that! But maybe it was always a dry joke?

I also believe that it's done with multiple exposures on different frames, meaning a series of separate images. Then it's a simple (?) matter of masking out the subject and pasting them on the image where you like the background. What you have here is pretty good btw.. I think it will be easier against a dark background. Have fun

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[tayl0124]

Looks pretty good. I know this isn't the critique thread but I did notice that the ball in the second/middle shot is in b/w and the others 2 shots it appears to be in color.