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By default the Double Exposure effect gives you a second exposure of your image. To bring in a different image for the second exposure click the + button and select another JPG or TIFF image. Please note that if you use a different image you won’t be able to use the Zoom/Rotate functions.

Use the Exposure slider to control the overall brightness and contrast of the image and use the Exposure Balance slider to control the opacity of the second exposure versus the original.

The Zoom Strength and Rotate Strength sliders are used to control the strength of any zoom or rotate effects on the second exposure. These effects are similar to if you zoomed the camera lens in/out while shooting or rotated the camera while shooting. You can get more control of these effects using the on-screen controls on the image window.

When the Double Exposure effect window is active, and you move your mouse over the image window you will see two small circular icons that represent the Move and Zoom/Rotate tool. Click either icon to select that tool. The Move tool has the double-headed arrow in the centre and is shown active in Figure 5.

Move the second exposure by dragging the circle with the double-headed arrow. Resize the second exposure by dragging the corner handles. Rotate the second exposure by positioning the mouse pointer just outside one of the corners until you see the curved arrow and then dragging the mouse.

The Zoom/Rotate tool is the solid circular icon, clicking on it will activate the tool, shown in Figure 6.

Identify the centre of the Zoom/Rotate effect by dragging the centre circular icon over the desired part of the original image. This is the part of the image that will be unaffected, or affected least, by the Zoom/Rotate effect. Drag the outside circle in and out towards the centre to affect the Zoom strength (the Zoom Strength slider moves in unison). Drag the inner circle in and out to affect the size of the “protected” part of the second exposure from the Zoom/Rotate effect. Click and drag any of the circles on the outer circle around the circle to affect the Rotate strength (the Rotate Strength slider moves in unison).

With filters like Analog Efex Pro I would always highly recommend applying them to a separate layer in Photoshop, that way you can use layer masks and layer opacity to adjust which parts of your image are affected by the Double Exposure effect.

There is a setting in the Analog Efex Pro preferences that allows you to ensure that Analog Efex Pro will automatically create a stamp visible layer and apply its effects to that layer. I recommend changing this setting as shown in Figure 7.