From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Masking a subject against a green screen - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Masking a subject against a green screen
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to mask an image set against a green screen. And in the process, we'll take this image, once again from the Dreamstime image library, and we'll immerse it inside this chaotic environment of what I'm calling swirling variables. Alright, so let's take a look at a few formulas here. For starters, when you're shooting against a green screen or a blue screen for that matter, you want to light the screen as evenly as possible. And you want to set the lights typically between the foreground subject and the green screen so that the subject of your photograph is not casting any shadows. Now in our case we have a less than ideal effect because the background is brightening up to form a kind of gradient. So if you light your scene properly, if anything, you'll get better results. Alright, so let's take a look at a couple of formulas that you apply using the calculations command. First of all, if you have a green screen, then for reasons I'll…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
(Locked)
Using the image to select itself2m 15s
-
A quick refresher on layer masking5m 43s
-
(Locked)
Initiating a mask as an alpha channel8m 7s
-
(Locked)
Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask6m 33s
-
(Locked)
Introducing the Calculations command6m 44s
-
(Locked)
Masking a subject set against black or white7m 11s
-
(Locked)
Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format3m 57s
-
(Locked)
Painting contrast with the Overlay mode10m 52s
-
Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter9m 5s
-
(Locked)
Restoring details with the History brush6m 41s
-
(Locked)
Masking a subject against a green screen6m 9s
-
(Locked)
Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels6m 48s
-
(Locked)
Painting away color fringing8m 5s
-
(Locked)
Immersing an image in its new environment6m
-
(Locked)
Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair7m 44s
-
(Locked)
Preserving very fine hair details9m 25s
-
(Locked)
Compositing hair to match a new background6m 57s
-
(Locked)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-