From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
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Exploring third-party alternatives
From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
Exploring third-party alternatives
Rich Harrington: All right, so Abba, you're a big fan of third-party tools as well, and there are some great ones out there for keying. What's one of your favorites? Abba Shapiro: Well, one of the ones I like to use is onOne software, they have something called Perfect Mask. You can either get it by itself or you can buy it as a suite, but I like the fact that it's easy, it's quick, and it deals with translucency really well. Rich: So in order to run this, this can't be a Smart Object so I'll rasterize that layer first, and then it's just under the Automate Menu, right? Abba: Right, when you install some third-party software it's under the Filter Menus. In this case, it's under Automate, and you would go under Automate and select Perfect Mask. Rich: We're just going to run this as a demo here, you can download it and try it yourself. It's going to prepare the image, and it's going to take a look at it. Now there are lots of controls, be sure to head in over to the onOne site if you…
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Initial processing of the raw photo4m 59s
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Creating transparency in Photoshop12m 41s
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Removing the background for subjects not shot on a chroma key8m 54s
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Exploring third-party alternatives4m 36s
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Positioning the background with Free Transform2m 26s
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Matching color and exposure for the photo3m 24s
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Adjusting focus in the background3m 56s
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Refining the composite3m 29s
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