The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture, An image with the Droste effect shows a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then has an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on.

Creating droste images is not that difficult and the technique is mainly based on duplicating the original layer and using the distortion transform tool.

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