The first thing I did was to open the

portrait I wanted to edit onto my

1920 x 1080 background.

The next thing I did was

make a layer mask of the
portrait.

I then began filling

around the subject with a
large brush, but being
careful not to go too
close to the subject
herself.

To fill in closely around the subject, I

used a very small brush (1-4px) to
ensure that it was correctly filled in.

When editing around the hair, I

had to use a one pixel brush to
give a realistic effect.

After I filled in the

entire background,
the image looked like
this.

By holding alt and clicking on

the layer mask, I was able to
see the layer mask on its own.
As I was going to be adding
things to the background later
on, I filled in the white bits on
the sides that had not
previously been well covered
with the same brush.

I then added the image to

Photoshop that I wanted to
create the double exposure
effect with behind the
subject.

I then I held alt and when

hovering the cursor over the
subject picture icon, so that I
could create a clipping mask.
This meant that the
background would be behind
the subject.
I also changed the
opacity of the
background to
position it where I
wanted it.

Next, I used the eraser tool

with a medium opacity to
blend the background
image to the subject.

I then went on the gradient

tool and added a smoky tone
to the portrait image to make
the final image more
effective and similar to the
True Detective introduction.

By using the saturation tool, I

selected a dull, brown colour and
changed the colour of my
background.

After, I added another image

to the very background. I
dragged the icon so that it was
above the background and
then changed to opacity to
8%.

Finally, I added another image

to the background and also
changed its opacity to 8%.