Photoshop Skills

Taking the footage from the performance shoot and attempting to mat the image onto a different background.

In the film industry, the technique I was looking for would have been called ‘difference matting’. I’ve asked around the technicians at college, but this seems to be a gap in the knowledge of most. So I shall just have to find it. The good thing is knowing what I want it to do; that helps in searching through online material.

So here’s how I do it. It’s all in the mask attached to an image and the use of ‘Apply Image’ in the alpha channel. (See Documentation for further details)