Need recommendations for green screen/background editing
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Need recommendations for green screen/background editing
I have a green screen, can take a decent photo, and have plenty of my own photos for new backgrounds. I'm looking for a simple way to put them all together.
And this is going to sound strange in this day & age especially for someone who's screen name is; Photo_guy, but I do not or have ever had photoshop, I've always just tried to take a good photo to begin with. So probably one of my biggest stumbling blocks is not fully understanding all the terminology used with software and various programs that so many of you are used to using.
There were a couple suggested to me, Shotcut and kdenlive which look great but they are complicated video editing programs- I just want to work with jpegs. An online platform is fine or I can d/l a program as long as it's not incredibly large and complicated. Free is good but I'm certainly not against paying a few bucks for something that works.
Do any of you guys have any platforms/programs that you like and may fit my needs? What do you think?
TIA-
*I probably should add that I am using an apple desk and laptop computers.
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With all that I have done, I have never, ever done any kind of digital enhancements of any kind in my nearly 8,000 pic portfolio unless I announce that I have done so to any viewer of a pic that has been digitally enhanced.
This pic I did last Thanksgiving. One who saw it admitted to spending a half-hour thinking for sure it was photo-shopped.
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I like it!ChaXen wrote:
I used fishing line, and a bunch of clear scotch tape.
All of my photography up to this point in my life has been mostly outdoor, adventure/travel type shooting for which I've never had a need to manipulate the photos much at all. My desire to use green screen is solely for the dolls, mainly for the Five Card Draw story line, to put them in real world places and situations. I've no desire to go through the learning curve of photoshop or anything else that big and entailed.
I will look into Gimp and a few others and try to find one that works for me.
Thanks to all-
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I ended up buying a scaled down version of PhotoShop- Photoshop Elements, and although I suck at it, the software does do what I wanted to do with my photos, and much, much more.
Cryptid85 I am not sure if it will do what your asking but it does have a whole lot of features, might look into it. I remember from my early searches for software I also couldn't find anything but video applications, it was frustrating to say the least. Good luck-
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I finally decided to start doing work thru the pc, a bit late really, as I'm not the youngest. I got Corel Paint and Photoshop. I bought a book off Amazon and followed You-tube instructions on how to use them. Believe me, as a traditional pen and paper comic guy it was kinda hard. Everything was SO unintuitive. You can't just pick up a pencil and go.Photo_guy wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 3:41 pm I have been overwhelmed with options that aren't quite what I need via google so am asking here in hopes that someone can point me to a simpler solution.
I have a green screen, can take a decent photo, and have plenty of my own photos for new backgrounds. I'm looking for a simple way to put them all together.
And this is going to sound strange in this day & age especially for someone who's screen name is; Photo_guy, but I do not or have ever had photoshop, I've always just tried to take a good photo to begin with. So probably one of my biggest stumbling blocks is not fully understanding all the terminology used with software and various programs that so many of you are used to using.
There were a couple suggested to me, Shotcut and kdenlive which look great but they are complicated video editing programs- I just want to work with jpegs. An online platform is fine or I can d/l a program as long as it's not incredibly large and complicated. Free is good but I'm certainly not against paying a few bucks for something that works.
Do any of you guys have any platforms/programs that you like and may fit my needs? What do you think?
TIA-
*I probably should add that I am using an apple desk and laptop computers.
However the youtube vids and the book really helped and in a year I was making some decent stuff. Even learned how to transpose photographic backgrounds into my artwork. It really isn't so hard.
Photoshop is really good for more formal illustrative draught work, I find, while Corel paint feels more like it's for an artist. I use both.
Ooops, almost forget, it really helps if you can get an art tablet and pen that you would attach to your pc. Costs range from cheap to expensive.
I reckon with your photoskills you would learn these art programs faster than me and make some good work. A good photo improved with one of these utilities and no one will even know you used anything and it'll look amazing!
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Thanks for the encouragement sir, looking into some tutorials on youtube sounds like a very good idea. I need to, I've kind of hit a plateau and can't seem to get any better. Thanks.
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