Photoshop Tutorial - "Chroma" Keying

[tkbr360]

thanks!

[AquuL]

Hey, your face! :D

[theovanua]

CSI theme?? lol

[neongirl1049]

haha you actually showed your face! lol should do that more often! 

[theovanua]

CSI lool

[ShadowWolfofPack]

I'm using Photoshop Elements "Full Version". It just seems to be Photoshop with some of the features locked, including the 'Modify' section needed to smooth edges after the magic wand has been used.

[AtomicFlame53]

Hey Noob, use the color range.

[witto8]

@AtomicFlame53 Noob my ass, I bet he's much better in photoshop than you - check other tutorials first

[AtomicFlame53]

@witto8 Trust me you don't wanna go there buddy, I could photoshop circles around you.

[KingTreonn]

@AtomicFlame53 noob

[iuliauchiha]

After I saw the World of Wacraft icon at 0:42 , everything went like "blah blah blah blah" xD Ofc, I am kidding

[ThreadstoTwelve]

*lightbulb clicks* I NEVER REALIZED GREEN SCREEN WAS CHROMA KEYER, MY LIFE IS LINKED AND MAKES SENSE NOW

Thanks for this

[gootmusic]

magic wand? are you fucking kidding me?! hahahaha

[RAZE1987]

This is NOT what chroma keying is ....

[robfisher1]

this isnt chroma keying...

[kingomar45]

Props!

I am not sure what the others are talking about, since you did show both ways with the wand and color range.

[tagwolf]

Think is NOT the correct way to Chromakey. I've seen several people here correct you in that you should be using color range. Why are you still giving people incorrect information?

[recole98]

Magic wand is a horrible way to chromakey

Zoom closely - the entire image will be bordered with green.

You obviously don't know how to use "color range" - you can select multiple areas to pull ALL of the green out. Unless you get add-ons, "color range" is the ONLY way to go.

[penman5]

@recole98

agreed

[carlospreid]

What movie software that uses the chroma key technique would you recommned.

[alejandroelmagnomdp]

what version of photoshop is?

[Simlipz]

Very nice

[tarrizzzzzzzzz]

look at the camera when you're talking man!

[ignae]

those techniques result in a very sloppy work, try that with some loose hair against the green background, mos of the time its better to cut the images with the pen tool.

[wxb200]

The pen tool is very useful, but I would use the Select Color Range function to remove the green...

[FargoJ02]

This was very useful man, thanks!

[kyoung6166]

Thank you this was a great help

[GohTakeshita]

Rule #1: Never use the Magic Wand! It either selects pixels or it doesn't. It's a yes or no proposition. Color Range, on the other hand, will produce selections with smooth gradated edges. Use that instead.

Rule #2: Never permanently delete pixels! Use masking.

[planetRown]

@GohTakeshita hello i answer you 2 years later, because im bored.

[niallswand]

What about if your using GIMP?

[cybraxcyberspace]

To avoid having to inverse selection grow schereink just hit Select - Feather before deleting

[ElectricMan97]

i just ook a picture last night and i needed to fill the green in the backround and this just popped up reccomenned for you today! its like utube knows!

[ajspice]

I needed to do something like this the other day...now I know how! Thanks!

[brianschimmel]

Btw: If you ever had photos where the sky was white when it should have been blue, you can use the same technique to key out the white areas, then just add a gradient from light blue to even lighter blue, and there you go with a perfect sky.

[andysciro1]

so basically... this isn't chroma keying at all... this is just the magic wand... and to people who watch this video try doing this to your movie, which is probably interlaced at 60 fps.. hmm a twenty minute movie isn't roughly over 70,000 frames or anything!

[brianschimmel]

Well... actually this IS chroma keying, but it is how you would do it on a still image.

You're right, if you have a movie, you're doing it another way, more automated. But under the hood, the software basically does the same as seen here.

[A7XDudeDrums]

@andysciro1 woah 60fps!! PAL is 25fps and NTSC is 30fps... what are you using?

[macuser7080]

@andysciro1 This isn't a method you would use for chromakeying video. you would a program that is for chroma keying video, we in this tutorial are clearly using a still image from a digital camera.

[ShadowWolfofPack]

@andysciro1 Why were you hoping to use PHOTOshop to chroma key a 70 000 frame video?

[ZooYorkVenom]

@andysciro1 Lol, what the fuck are you talking about? Photoshop =/= After Effects

[RonaldVaughan]

Can one use Photoshop to copy-and-paste a

video image from YouTube?

Because,if I try to select/copy/paste by the

"normal" methods(no Photoshop),everything BUT the image area gets selected!

BTW,can this chroma-key be used for a 3D

movie??

[NoDetrel]

First off, you wouldn't want to use photoshop for video editing. Photoshop is best for individual images. If you want to go through every single frame, frame by frame, and chroma key each one individually. You're better off with a program like Final Cut.

It also doesn't work to copy single frames of video from youtube because frankly, youtube doesn't broadcast at individual frames. There are some tricks you can use...but those infringe on copyright and I won't go any further into it.

[RonaldVaughan]

Thanks for this info. However, I don't know

how to use Final Cut at this time....

[allpoint007]

Thanks, very helpful my prints look much better!

[tubetape]

Try PhotoKey. It's so much easier and removes the background in seconds

[jsayram]

or an easier way just go to color rage.......

[jumper360]

thats not even chroma keying, you could dothat with any image

[Sparkvids]

so that's the worst way to do a chroma key

[Glennz995]

wow, nice, allthough that isnt really chroma keying is it, its cutting round someone! lol

good vid!

[yesturtle]

ty1

[pacostradivarious]

Needed a quick answer for stills (I've been chroma keying video material and frame grabs were so lossy) and this was an excellent summary.

[Flabbaghasted]

It looks so easy!!

[Ilovecomedy7]

What if the models's hair was long and the edge of hairs is overlapping with the green screen, would that be tricky to remove the background ? Can we still use the Magic Wand Tool for that case ?

[Reneeshka]

Nice video. But I tried to do it on a regular pic of mine and the magic wand doesn't seem to work for multi-colored backgrounds and it's selecting part of me, too. Any advices?

[WishingLampPro]

It has to be a solid color.

[Altezza07]

use to polygonal lasso tool, takes a long time but it works very well

[frameflavour]

how do u get rid of the green reflections? how can u supress that without feather, smooth ect

[thatstickerguy]

nice !! BUT, goes to fast & dosen't show every step on sceen as he clicks away. Sound is low. I losts steps as he bolted thru after half way. Still very helpful.

[sphinxmorraine]

sorry but this is a video why dont you try pausing it and rewinding it and as far as i can tell he does go eactly through every step. he did not miss any thing out.

[trilex47]

fast mac.

[ragingage12]

dude how do u do this u man hooker

[ragingage12]

dude how do u do this!!!!!!

[Russ3llC]

Thanks for the tut! I knew how to use the magic wand to remove the green background, but before this video I didn't know how to remove those annoying green outline.

[6922basmah]

thanx

very nice lisson:D

[hamplus12]

thanx man

[Massgrounds]

nice

[Duffy01]

Need: Aqua sphere w/audio!! Please

[IceflowStudios]

Check my other videos. I remade one recently.

[diverdan182]

great tut like usual but the voice audio isnt that great...

[steela101]

Hey Dude nice vid thanxx helped a heap but can you re-post the aqua sphere vid WITH AUDIO pllllllllz! cya

[alansari101]

Thank you very much

[pinkpinkypinkpinky]

how do you get photoshop?

[IceflowStudios]

You can buy it at most business/tech stores.

[MrPhantom3232]

@IceflowStudios There are also ways to download it for free.

[adrian1218]

try on emule or ares dude

[brianhoorn]

@pinkpinkypinkpinky Download it... duh?

adobe dot com/products/photoshop/photosh­op/

[PrateekVEVO]

@pinkpinkypinkpinky i can help u

[duranali]

very good tut..thanks man...i learn new thing today=)

[ZACONDAREZ]

great tutorial thanks.

[Writermo1]

nice tutorial

[digidave]

If I get green spill on my subjects I use hue and saturation to get rid if it because ur actually removing

some subject information... Magnetic lasso, the extract filter, the pen sometimes and a black and white layer mask would be my order of preference

[nikcs123]

ZOMG i see WoW!

PS: macs suck

[fullbar]

I couldn't understand one thing, How can I make it be "transparent"?

help me please!

thanks

[IceflowStudios]

Make sure your layer with the green is on a separate layer, and not the "Backgroud" layer. If it says "Backgroud" in the layers pallet, double click it and click OK.

[lordjunnior]

muito bom

[imbronze]

I would use the pen tool, and get feathered paths. And even if I had a complex background behind the subject, to be more accurate.

Maybe also the extract filter techniques + history brush is a bit better.

In this example, the subject is casting a shadow, so it might be better to move far a bit from the green, to get better color range

[tonyescuso]

GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[angelwingzx]

Sorry to say but this is horrible tutorial. The lasso is horrible. It is really unaccurate and is only good for beginners. Never use the lasso tool unless you are trying to get rough edges or random shapes etc. Because it sucks. Use the pen tool. Anyone who has done vectoring will tell you to use the pen tool.

[Limster17]

if you know so much then why are you watching this ?

[RastafarianPilgrim]

IN-accurate...

[robev33]

nvm u put it in the video :p stupid me

[robev33]

u can also do select>color range and click any of the green

[spykez]

Great tutorial, but why not use the magnetic lasso tool though?

[extemp]

YES i really needed to know this!

thanks

[rockitbaby]

and how do i save the picture when the background is deleted??

[IceflowStudios]

File > Save As. Make sure to save it as a gif to save the transparency.

[DigitalSurgeon]

Save it as a PNG

[angelwingzx]

Yea but in the professional industry you have to think about consumers remember. Not everyone uses firefox or other browsers which support png image files. Internet Explorer is a major browser that is used by a lot of people, but... it does not support png image files.

Yea i know people should just get firefox already but then again a lot of people still use dialup.

[PSCMYV]

Disagree I only use IE and it supports '.png' image files.

[feedbackoverflow]

IE 6 and older (widely used) doens't support PNG transparency. Only IE 7 does. As always, IE sucks big time.

[wstoner]

Awesome! Even I should be able to follow these instructions :)

[devonyu415]

thanks man, your tutarials are godly! keep em up!

[captainm06]

wow, great stuff, thanks for the tutorial

[wwwdotcomhere]

Good tutorial, but since you getting into the details of the pictures you might want to put screenshots each effect. In these videos, the compression seems to hide them.

[adamgooday]

WOW i just got back from trying know i know

[IceflowStudios]

Does it all make sense? I think Friday I will start the Photoshop 101 tutorial, covering all the basics :)

[budweiser0]

Thx man really helpful

[budweiser0]

Thx man really helpful

[Festerius2]

Good photoshop tutorial