Removing the background on some of my photographs.
When I originally attempted to create my piece of work in the style of Taylor-woods it was not done to a very good standard. I attempted it as a tester or demo piece with the intentions of if it worked well I would find a way to make it work better.
My make shift green screen (a White sheet hung up behind the suspended model) and suspension technique (seen in blog post 1) worked well for demonstration purposes but it limited the space I could use and also how easy the final picture was to edit.
The fact that the sheet was white, covered in creases as well as bad lighting and thickness of the sheet all played a part in making the editing near impossible.
As his was my 1st time using Photoshop I hadn’t found the best way to do certain jobs yet so many of the images didn’t turn out as natural as I would have liked them to look, for example in her arms her you can clearly see the lines where I have attempted to remove the rope and re touch her skin up. I feel with the more time and effort I put into learning about Photoshop over summer and this year I can really improve the quality of the images doing this and other experiments again.
I have attempted to edit out the bad background and replace it with a plain colour background or another image or scene and this is going reasonably well however with a proper green screen the result would be much better as deciphering skin / hair from the grey background exactly pixel by pixel proved difficult with such a close colour.
This is how close I managed to get to an exact cut out of Laura’s body to put on a separate background her body was the easy part doing the hair on such a close colour background to her blonde hair was impossible so I would like to try again using a different background.
