Photoshop help: Best background to remove.
Jul 29, 2016 22:10:00 #
Do not use black, do not bother with green or blue. You want gray. You get gray by using a white background and not lighting it well. Just enough light to make it a medium gray. Works like a charm.
Gray will be dark enough to separate light, light enough to separate dark, and being neutral, will not add a color cast. I do tons of these every year and gray is absolutely the easiest. Joel Grimes, who does the best extractions you will ever see, uses gray exclusively. http://joelgrimes.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=12191&Akey=P7FJP8B4
Best of all, white is already in the facility and you don't WANT to light it as white - lots of room to go from white to almost black based on lighting.
Gray will be dark enough to separate light, light enough to separate dark, and being neutral, will not add a color cast. I do tons of these every year and gray is absolutely the easiest. Joel Grimes, who does the best extractions you will ever see, uses gray exclusively. http://joelgrimes.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=12191&Akey=P7FJP8B4
Best of all, white is already in the facility and you don't WANT to light it as white - lots of room to go from white to almost black based on lighting.
Jul 29, 2016 23:12:39 #
You need to check out www.greenscreenwizard.com to how to. I'm a event photography I use GSW at all events, photograph 100s on green screen take 1 min. to get BG out.
Jul 29, 2016 23:33:14 #
Jul 29, 2016 23:34:54 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Why don't you just take you own, so you can use green?
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Exactly what I would have suggested. A nice flat chromakey background, well lit is perfect to go whichever way you wish.
Jul 30, 2016 05:00:29 #
JamesCurran wrote:
This weekend I'll be shooting a model. I plan to cut her out of the image and Photoshop her into a different background.
For this, would it be best to shoot her on an all black background? or an all white one? (Those should be the only choices the studio should have to offer)
The new background/final image will have an overall dark tone.
For this, would it be best to shoot her on an all black background? or an all white one? (Those should be the only choices the studio should have to offer)
The new background/final image will have an overall dark tone.
James, I would look into the Chromakey backgrounds, they are either Green or Blue, I have read that "weird color" makes selection very easy. In PS you just select the color and use the eraser tool.
I haven't tried it myself, Using black or white makes it difficult to isolate the subject because there will almost always be a highlight or shadow that the select / or lasso tool will see as a shade of the back ground color, when this happens you will have to remove b/g color pixel by pixel to refine the edge of the subject.
Attached in a PM are two images : The first in the model taken with a black background W/ after removal of BG.
Jul 30, 2016 05:34:37 #
Colored backgrounds are fine. Many masking tools, including Photoshop CC and On1 provide ways to purify colors around wispy hair, retaining the wisps, and the color in the out of focus areas, removing any background color infiltration.
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