It was 1/5/04 9:09 am, when Snowy Aldon wrote:

>> The 'specialist' results are that
>> green has contaminated both hair and face  (I suspect I would have
>> tried to put in some flags to try and avoid the backlight hitting the
>> subject, but I'm not a specialist).

> It's possible the cast is left on the skin to give a colour wrap around from
> the background. Maybe there is something in a video effects software like
> Flame or After effects, which deals with this when using the green screen as
> a matte. 

When shooting blue/green screen for motion pictures, dedicated matting
programmes are usually used to create the mattes and to clean up any stray
spill. This shoot doesn't look like a green screen or a blue screen shoot to
me. If it was a green screen shoot, the screen would be green. If it was a
blue screen shoot, where's the green spill coming from? Can't imagine anyone
using a green backlight unless for special fx, like a rock promo! And, IAC,
the green here looks more like spill than a backlight.

BTW, why would anyone need a "specialist" to do blue/green screen? If you
can do photography, you can do blue/green screen work. <g>

> It may be worth a quick chat to a video post production house unless there
> is someone on the list with video post production experience. I'm sure that
> there is something in the channel operations which can deal with this given
> PS's history with matte production.

Actually, Photoshop Channel Chops has some good techniques for matting and
cleaning up spill. If you don't have it to hand, you can use Hue/Saturation
as an Adjustment layer to clean up some of the spill:

1. In the H/S dialog, select Green from the Edit popup menu.
2. Use the Eyedropper(s) to select the spill (make sure its options are set
to 3x3 sample size).
3. Move the Hue slider to the left and click the OK button when happy.
4. Change the layer's blend mode to Color.
5. To clean up the edges, do some cloning on a new layer by sampling the
hair and change the layer's blend mode to Color and play with the opacity.

HTH.

Shangara Singh.
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