From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing
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Limitations for color keying - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing
Limitations for color keying
- [Instructor] In this chapter we've explored a couple of techniques that you can use to work around Photoshop's limitations for masking moving elements. You may be familiar with the special effects process used in film making known as green screening, or color keying, and you might be wondering if you could use something like that in Photoshop. Well, unfortunately, you can't. While Photoshop can isolate specific colors, and it does so very well for still images it doesn't work with moving elements. Let's take a look at an example that shows this. So I have a video layer of the crate that was used in the Bear River title sequence, and it's just a short clip of the crate opening up. And the idea was that the crate would open up, and you'd be able to look through it, and see something else in the crate. So, lemme just set this back here to where we can see the top of the crate, and let's go into the Advanced Blending options, and see if we can get a mask that's gonna work for this. So I…
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