If you want to make your pictures come alive, using picture effects in Photoshop can help you do just that. Using this component of Photoshop is simple to do. The only thing that is required of you other than following the directions is that you should have some type of imagination.

Photoshop has plenty of picture effects that you can use and these instructions will show you how to apply a double image and make that image into something that you may never have thought of. Open a picture from Photoshop. You will see a layer called “Background”. Using the right-click button on your mouse, open it and choose the command “Duplicate Layer”.

The actual duplicate layer should be named something else. After you have saved the new file, you should see two layers in your layer palette. If for some reason the layers palette does not open in Photoshop, select “Window” and choose “Layers”. Or you can try using the F7 key at the top of your keyboard.

Using the Move tool, you will find a spot and click on the newly created duplicate layer. Drag the picture in whatever direction you choose. Keep dragging it and under the duplicate one, you will see the first picture.

Select the “Free Transform” command from the Edit menu. If you need to change the second picture into different shapes and sizes, this is what you would use to do that. Doing that would also require using the Move tool in order to get the picture to where you want it.