Green Wizard

[Rosy]

Hi there all

wanting to know if any of you are familiar with this software GREEN WIZARD - basically takes your subject off the green screen and merges on to your desired background. i have the test product and it seems very good. Wanting more experienced advice though


do you recommend it if so, where is the best place to purchase it

 

[Buckster]

Never heard of it till now. Looked it up on the web to see what it is and how much it costs. Based on what I saw (no first hand experience with it), I'll stick with my Topaz ReMask - Masking Made Easy which extracts just fine, including green screen extraction, and it costs way less.

 

[Rosy]

Never heard of it till now. Looked it up on the web to see what it is and how much it costs. Based on what I saw (no first hand experience with it), I'll stick with my Topaz ReMask - Masking Made Easy which extracts just fine, including green screen extraction, and it costs way less.

THANK YOU SOOO VERY MUCH

 

[MLeeK]

No clue on the software, but I'd like some GOOD lessons in green screen. I hate the casts I get from it...
I have found it easier to use blue backdrops and change the color. That green is so dang overpowering that it casts onto blondes etc. I can fight it with a hair light a little, but I SUCK at it!
If you've mastered the taking of green screen I sure could use some help!

 

[Buckster]

I tried green screen but decided the green color contamination issues were way too much to deal with as well most of the time. Plain white or black backgrounds work just as well, depending on what you've got standing in front of them that you want to later extract, and they leave no color contamination problems to deal with.

 

[Rosy]

unforetunately no - i do not have much experience with it - other than you are supposed to keep the screen as tight as possible (to avoid shadows) and lighting it on its own

that is all i can share - YOU TUBE is my friend!!!

 

[MLeeK]

Glad it isn't just me!

 

[DiskoJoe]

If you use a green screen then you should just be able to extract that color from the green screen photo and layer it on anything you want with photoshop and not need additional software. That is why people use that god awful green color for screens because it is not something you will run into normally when out shooting so extracting it will not typically effect much.

 

[dylanstraub]

No clue on the software, but I'd like some GOOD lessons in green screen. I hate the casts I get from it...
I have found it easier to use blue backdrops and change the color. That green is so dang overpowering that it casts onto blondes etc. I can fight it with a hair light a little, but I SUCK at it!
If you've mastered the taking of green screen I sure could use some help!

Photoshop Elements 8 has a really nifty too for removing color cast from a picture. I've had great results using it. Just an fyi

 

[Buckster]

If you use a green screen then you should just be able to extract that color from the green screen photo and layer it on anything you want with photoshop and not need additional software. That is why people use that god awful green color for screens because it is not something you will run into normally when out shooting so extracting it will not typically effect much.

Yeah, it seems like it would be just that simple, doesn't it? I sure thought it would be. Unfortunately, that's not usually the case, as most who've actually played with green screen can tell you.

The problem is that when that gaudy day-glo green blends with other colors in the photo by affecting them in what's commonly referred to as contamination, it's not just that gaudy green anymore that you're looking to replace - it's a whole range of colors made by that green combining with whatever color it's next to on the flat plane of the photo.

Think about what you're seeing at an edge between two objects when you're pixel-peeping deep into one of your images at full size. There's no clear distinct line there with one color on one side and another color on another side and a hard edge between them; It's a band of transitional colors from one thing to the next. That's why we have to slightly blur or feather the edges of something we've cut and pasted into a composite, otherwise it looks unnatural, like it was cut out with scissors and pasted on top of the background. We need that transitional edge to buy into the idea that it's really a part of the rest of the photo it's in, and that it belongs there. Zoom way into a single strand of hair at full size out of the camera and you'll see the same thing - a transitional band of colored pixels, not a strand of hair.

It's the contamination in those transitional edges that kick your butt working with green screen.

 

[MLeeK]

Oh, I know how to remove color casts, but that is time consuming and not something I want to do. I believe firmly in the get it right in camera theory. Fixing screw ups and issues after the fact takes WAY longer than getting it right in camera and reduces your profitability greatly.

 

[JustinL]

i use photokey pro 4 and it works very well. I just kinda mess around with it nothing to serious with green screening

here a good example of how well it works, not metered yet and the camera not lined up yet and the program pulled the green out very well.