Green screening experimentation

I didn't want to overload my previous blogpost so I made a separate one for the greenscreen stuff.

Attempting to use Adobe Premiere Pro with green screen.

I stayed in the greenscreen workshop for quite a while, I would say that the only thing I missed out on was using Adobe Premiere Pro with a green screened video, therefore the first thing I did was look up a tutorial online (I feel that I am getting more comfortable with looking for online tutorials) and amazingly I found an Adobe tutorial that I could use. (Image 1) I didn't fully read the tutorial just the part that you can see in the screenshot, everything else I did was improvised. (Image 2) I did what the page had told me to do and added the Ultra Key effect then I selected the green colour and the background mostly disappeared. (Image 3) I picked a random picture if the sky that I had taken with my camera and placed it behind the girl and it looked good except the lighting I had used during the workshop made the image not look great (at least I think that was the problem). The only thing I had actually read in the article was the phrase Ultra Key because I knew what I needed was under Vide Effects but I didn't know which specific Keying it was. (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) I experimented with the settings when I moved on to editing the image with the second girl and it's a good thing I did. (Image 7) (Image 8) Through the experimenting I did, I found out that using the Aggressive Setting was actually the better setting to use, it made the images look a lot better. (Image 9) After that, I decided that I had had enough of using a picture background and I was ready to have a moving background. I tried to make a sort of narrative with the usage of the video but it was really quick (not really) work.

https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/video/discover/how-to-use-green-screen.html Tutorial

All the videos that I used were shaky, most likely because I have shaky hands, now I know that I really should have used the tripod, I will try to remember that. The video in the background was just a random video I took of when it snowed this February and I was walking, that definitely added to the shakiness. But all in all I think it is not too bad.

Using Adobe Photoshop to edit a green screened photograph.

(Image 1) So the first thing I did was use the Object Selection Tool and selected the area around the girl, this then selected only the girl, ignoring most of the green screen. (Image 2) I then right clicked, selected the inverse and deleted the background. I was taught that method at the beginning of the course and it worked quite well. (Image 3) I didn't know what I wanted to do with the image beyond that so I just started to colour it with the brush tool and the colours that were left over from my last Photoshop endeavour-it was a retro tv. (Image 4) I thought that the colouring was interesting but I wanted to see what it would become if I used the Gradient Tool. It was cool but not what I wanted to the final image so I deleted the colouring in the background which was on a different layer. (Image 5) I had recently discovered some cool new things in the Filter section and wondered what I could do with it. (Image 6) I skimmed through the other filters then looked at the Neural Filters and experimented with the various filters. I wasn't really pleased with any of the results so I reversed everything and started from scratch. (Image 7) I wasn't fully confident that the way I dealt with the greenscreen was the best or correct way so I decided to look at a video tutorial. I couldn't find my earphones this morning so I had to watch the video with the auto-generated subtitles which for some reason was trying to generate Vietnamese. (Image 8) I didn't really understand what the video wanted me to do but I tried to copy it as best as I could. (Image 9) I most definitely didn't do it right. But I still tried. (Image 10) I looked at a picture and words tutorial but I still didn't get the results that they did. (Image 11) So I gave up and just redid it the way that I was used to. Maybe one day I will be able to do it that way. In the end I just chose a random picture that I had taken on my camera one day and used it as a background for the image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu5AVFI7zMw Video tutorial I tried to use

I know that I could have made it look more realistic by getting a different picture and editing both images to account for the sun and the shading and the different qualities but I really liked this one and I liked the outcome. The background image was taken behind a window so the quality is not the best.