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  Fixing the background on a video

  Posted by Kathleen Dylan on December 30, 2008 at 4:26 am

  Hi everyone–

  Working on a video where there is a framed wall photo behind someone’s head that shows the reflection of an umbrella light (oops!). In order to fix this, I was hoping to just paint over it in photoshop to eliminate the photo and just make it the color of the wall behind him.

  How can I best keep the paint off of the person and only on the wall (and having the most realistic edges..keeping it away from the guy’s hair)?

  Richard Harrington replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Richard Harrington

  December 31, 2008 at 5:48 am

  This is called rotoscoping… and it is NOT easy or fast….

  Suggest you use AE for it…

  Mask the guy out and place over a touched up frame made in PS.

  This is quite a challenge and you will likely need someone to show you or complete quite a few tutorials as it takes several skills

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Studio On the Spot and ATS:iWork

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