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<\/a> We had a gray muslin background, and the background light was too low and not configured correctly. I would have rathered it had a regular reflector pointing higher at the background. The background wasn’t really high enough either. To change the angle, I stood on a riser, and held my camera above my head. This way I wouldn’t have Whitney’s hands above the background.<\/p>\nWe had to photogenics strobes in softboxes at 45deg to her that we had set up for portraits before. They still seemed to cover her well enough.<\/p>\n
So I thought that I had a pretty good shot, but I wanted to so something with it. I didn’t like the background, and I needed a way to hide the light, so I decided to cut her out of the background.<\/p>\n
This was harder than I thought. Well, actually just time consuming. The quick selection tool was horrible. It kept selecting parts of her. I then tried the magic wand. That was a little better, but there was still much to do. I then spent quite a bit of time with the other selection tools adding and subtracting from my selection.<\/p>\n
When I looked at the edges of her legs, there was a bit of a grey line beside her jeans that didn’t look right. I replaced that grey with white. That looked much better.<\/p>\n Then I had an issue with her hair. I managed to “erase” some of her hair (actually did it with a mask) on the right side of her head. But, I am still not sure what to do about the grey that is still between her hair on the left side of her hair. I am sure that would show if printed.<\/p>\n I looked through some older images and found one that was mostly clouds and sky. I then created another image with this sky, and added Whitney in as another layer. Because she was feathered when I cut her out, she placed pretty well on top.<\/p>\n Then, I expanded the canvas to give lots of space around the image. I added a drop shadow to the cloud layer and added the text at the bottom.<\/p>\n Voila. Cheezy poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was shooting at my studio class and noticed that some people were taking pictures of Whitney jumping. Whitney leads her cheer group, so she is a natural at this kind of thing. We weren’t really set up for this … Continue reading ![\"Jumping](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3432\/3372103794_b4d6734f1a.jpg?resize=334%2C500\")
<\/a> Once I had her selected, I feathered the edge a few pixels, and then coppied her onto a blank layer. Another layer with a fill of white, and we were almost done.<\/p>\n![\"Jumping](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3446\/3371283817_8cc7bc7fe3.jpg?resize=367%2C500\")
<\/a> So that wasn’t too bad, and was really what I had started out to do, but now that I had her seperated from the background, could I put her on a different background?<\/p>\n