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I’m helping a fellow photographer. The photographer took a series of portraits in front of a green background and now wants to swap in a different background. I made an action that copied the image, selected and deleted the green, copied the background from another image, pasted it and moved the layer behind the cutout image. It works fine for most of the images BUT there are some that we are having real problems with. These are the images with fair hair or fly-away hair – we get dark green fringing and the selection edges are horrible.
I’ve uploaded a few sample images here:
http://jcdill.com/misc/
The 029 image I used the magic wand to select the green background. The 037 image I used select -> color range to select the green. As you can see, both give horrible results. The magic wand selection works OK for the other images where the hair is darker or doesn’t have fly-away edges.
There are about 20 images with this problem.
I can use PS7, PS CS2, or PS CS3.
I’d love some suggestions on the most time effective way to solve this green fringing problem.
Thanks!
jc
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"The nice thing about a mare is you get to ride a lot of different horses without having to own that many." ~ Eileen Morgan of The Mare’s Nest, PA
I’ve uploaded a few sample images here:
http://jcdill.com/misc/
The 029 image I used the magic wand to select the green background. The 037 image I used select -> color range to select the green. As you can see, both give horrible results. The magic wand selection works OK for the other images where the hair is darker or doesn’t have fly-away edges.
There are about 20 images with this problem.
I can use PS7, PS CS2, or PS CS3.
I’d love some suggestions on the most time effective way to solve this green fringing problem.
Thanks!
jc
—
"The nice thing about a mare is you get to ride a lot of different horses without having to own that many." ~ Eileen Morgan of The Mare’s Nest, PA
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