Blue- Green screen background Software - Glamour 1™ Putting the Glamour Back in Photography!

**tommymc** · 10-20-2006, 07:18 PM

I'm thinking of buying some software to use blue screen background editing for a shoot I have coming up soon. Do any of you have any experience in this work and if so, what do you reccommend.
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racket4life · 10-20-2006, 07:22 PM

Contact a friend of mine at:

www.starryskiesstudio.com

he shoots all blue/green backgrounds....probably 90% of his work.

Cheers.

racket4life · 10-20-2006, 07:23 PM

His name is Willis...forgot to add that in the previous post...

**tommymc** · 10-20-2006, 07:25 PM

Thanx for the reply

racket4life · 10-20-2006, 07:35 PM

My pleasure and good luck...

Steve_Buchanan · 10-20-2006, 07:37 PM

I've tried a variety of chroma-key systems for high end photography in the past and gave up on them about 4 years ago as they just couldn't handle the resolution. They did ok - but really no better than the magic wand in photoshop. Further, most of them at the time did not allow for creating clipping paths which is sometimes required. As a result it's been me, the pen tool and more bezier curves than you can shake the proverbial stick at.

With that said I know technology changes so keep us all posted on your progress and results. I for one would be interested.

Steve

**digitalimpressions** · 10-20-2006, 08:44 PM

Try http://www.digitalanarchy.com/primat...atte_demo.html works very well for most things I've thrown at it. The key to any chromakey software working well is getting the lighting right.

Roland

**tommymc** · 10-21-2006, 10:58 PM

Thanx Guys for all the help. Looks like a bunch of work ahead of me.

crackpnt69 · 10-25-2006, 11:36 AM

personally I like to use adobe after effects it works great aslong as your lighting is even.

Photomart · 10-25-2006, 01:53 PM

If you do the proper pre-production planning, you can do everything you want in Photoshiop. I shoot everything against seemless paper -- choose the color of the paper to match the background replacement image -- then combine everything in Photoshop.

For what it's worth, I created a calendar in 2002 using an Olympus 8080 point and shoot and Photoshop. Check out the calendar and more samples here:
http://www.martygast.com/calendars/satc/

This picture was created using four separate images - model (shot on white seemless), candy box, red hearts and white hearts.

This picture was created using five separate images - model (shot on blue seemless), foreground plant, pool of water, waterfall and the background mist.