Once you're satisfied with your selection, click 'OK'.To select with even greater accuracy, you can zoom in by pressing 'Command' - '+' (Mac) or 'Control' - '+' (Windows). Also, you can hold down the shift key and click and drag your mouse across an area to select many points at once, instead of clicking for each point. This selection should work pretty well, but if there are still pixels here and there that are white, you can lower the Fuzziness until it's easier to click on the areas.If there are still areas (because of non-uniform lighting) of the green screen which are not white, hold down the Shift key and click on them with the eyedropper until all of the green area is selected. You should see much of the green area as white, and the rest of the image (which will be selected) black.
The step-by-step instructions below work with Adobe Photoshop CS, but should be similar (if not exactly the same with other version of Photoshop, including CS2-5, 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0). The Greenscreen Handbook: Real-World Production Techniques.Greenscreen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers.The biggest advantage to using the Color Range command is that you can easily set up an Action for batch processing photos, and your selection can be used for many /sites/default/files/articles/photography.įor more discussion and information, I'd highly recommend one of the following books: You could use the Magic Wand, using special plugins, using a Channel mixer adjustment layer, or mask your image in quick mask mode. There are also many other ways to 'knock out' the green or blue (or other colors, for that matter!) that can be easier or harder, depending on your source photo. (You could also remove the background by using the 'magic wand' or drawing with the pen or lasso tool around the subject, but if you have a good, solid color background (even with less-than-stellar lighting), it's much easier to use the Color Range command.
The easiest and most effective method for 'keying' (removing) any plain color (green, blue, or any other color) background in Photoshop (as long as the subject has none of that color in his/her clothing or makeup!) is to use the 'Color Range.' command, located in the 'Select' menu. To acquire a good, evenly-lit background is a completely different topic (and one which I don't have time to discuss here). (Quick Note: This guide is simply explaining one Photoshop technique (among many) for removing solid color backgrounds. Not only does it make it easy for someone to change the scenic background behind a person, it also can help to make distinctive portrait backgrounds or 'cut out' an object that you would like to be able to manipulate easier. In photography, 'green screening' can be very useful for many different purposes. Videographers often use green screens to film people and put backgrounds in that were either too hard to create in the real world or were too hard for the actors/talent to travel to.