From the course: After Effects for Photography
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Key (remove) a background color
From the course: After Effects for Photography
Key (remove) a background color
- [Instructor] Many times, your photography may be used in a graphic design project, and designers may need to remove the background. So, here's a technique for removing a solid color from your photo, and while you can certainly do this inside of Photoshop, I would argue that it can be done much faster in After Effects. So, if you're following along, create a new project inside of After Effects, and then let's import the greens.jpeg file from folder 02 of the Chapter 1 folder in the exercise files. And so, once you have your jpeg imported and your composition created, let's come over here to the Effects and Presets. Let's come in here and search for Keylights, so I'll just type in K-E-Y. We're looking for Keylight 1.2 under the Keying group. So, let's grab this, let's drag and drop it right on top of the jpeg. So, now, inside of the Effect Controls, we can come in here, and we're going to be working with the screen color, gain, and balance, so the first thing we want to do is pick the…
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