Leopard Can Change It’s Spots 2 – Part 1

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Mar 302012
 

So in the previous tutorial I showed you how to change the colour of a green screen. Well what about dropping in a new background? Using the rough cutout from a previous tutorial here I will show you how to ‘photoshop in’ a new background and make it look real.

To start I dropped the cutout onto the background and manipulated it into place using Edit -> Free Transform (Or Cmd/Ctrl + T) It is best at this stage to get the proportions right and positions correct as best as possible as this could affect where you place shadows and what other effects you apply later.  Read more...

A Leopard Can Change His Spots – Changing Backgrounds

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Mar 292012
 
Red Memory Box

In this tutorial I will show you how to use some techniques to change the colour of a green screen to achieve an interesting textured background without having to do a cutout!

To start I added a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Then using the colour selector hand in the palette I clicked on the green screen. This automatically selects the greens for me in the palette and will mean only those are changed.

Next I refined the selection by dragging the slider to cover all the greens.

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Cutting Out: Background Eraser Part 2 (Cleaning Up)

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Feb 292012
 

Welcome to Part 2 of Cut Outs: Background Eraser Tool. In this tutorial we will be cleaning up the rough cutout we made with the background eraser tool. Missed it? Don’t worry, the post is right here.

If you remember, the cutout we made was decent enough; especially for the time we put into it. But for a professional, this is just not up to scratch yet. Now I will take you through some advanced techniques to cleanup the image before we drop it into a background. The image below shows you where we got to – some rough/furry edges, green lines remaining and green hints in the legs and arms.  Read more...

Cutting Out: Background Eraser Part 1

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Feb 272012
 

Green Screen Removal is one of the first things you want to learn in Photoshop; after all, that is what it’s all about right? But then you probably got caught up in learning the basic tools and removing background properly and effectively might have dropped off your to-do list. Well, it is time to put it back on as I take you through a series of different ways of skinning the same cat… um… green screen; Photoshop style of course.  Read more...