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06/18/2008 12:03:35 AM · #1 |
This company comes to our martial arts studio every year
//www.rmapco.com/Backgrounds.asp
and they take the pictures on a regular grey muslin background and then add in the digital backgrounds that you see on that page.
How difficult is it to get these backgrounds and add them in? Do they use photoshop or a special program? Is it a pain in the ass? Is it expensive? I have no idea how they do this but I'd like to start doing it.
I can't imagine they use photoshop because they do thousands of pictures at a time.
Anyone know?
Message edited by author 2008-06-18 00:04:18. |
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06/18/2008 11:17:22 PM · #2 |
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06/19/2008 12:48:00 AM · #3 |
I know nothing about this guy but it was the first thing that popped up in a search and actually looks cool.
//www.digital-background.net/
There are lots of digital background dl's out on the net... as to removing existing background there are "Masking" packages that probably make the task a snap...
I was out looking for a "Good" Borders and Edges package the other night and ran across MaskPro 4 (done by same peeps that do genuine fractrals) which prolly takes all the work out of it... //www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=4
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06/19/2008 01:12:02 AM · #4 |
This process is usually known as "blue-screening" or "green-screening" as these are the usual color backgrounds used.
What you do is try to use a BG color which is markedly different from any colors of your subject. You want it well and evenly-lit, and your subject far enough away that the BG is OOF; you want the BG to be as close to a solid color as possible.
Then you use Photoshop's Magic Wand selection tool (or your program's equivalent) to make a selection of just the background -- use a very low threshold setting on the MW tool so that it selects only the BG. Save that selection, open your new BG image, select it, then use the PasteInto command to drop the new BG in place of the color screen. You will probably want to feather the selection before pasting, but you'll have to experiment with the feathering value as the amount of blending needed at the edges will vary with your subject and BG matter |
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06/19/2008 01:24:29 AM · #5 |
| I found this the other day and did the tut. Worked great on the image supplied but haven't tried it on any others. Will soon enough though. |
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