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pr0fess0r

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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2005 2:51 am    Post subject: Making black transparent Reply with quote

Hi all
I have some photos of clothing taken against a black background. I want to get rid of the background and have the clothing against a transparent background but some areas of the clothing are semi-transparent, so what i need to be able to is somehow key out the black, or make an alpha channel from the black. Can anyone suggest a technique or site I could check out to accomplish this?
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BryanDowning

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Making black transparent Reply with quote

pr0fess0r wrote:
but some areas of the clothing are semi-transparent



What do you mean semi-transparent? Can you post an example?

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.katedowmanbride.co.nz/orchid/index.php?gown=01

the train of the dress has semi-transparent areas, but as you can see these show the black background. I want to somehow mask out, or remove the black so the pink background shows through.

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the train made out of a mesh material that is supposed to be see through? Because the 1st gown looks completely natural to me. It just looks like a shadow down on the train. If it's supposed to be see through like a mesh, I think I can figure out how to mask that.
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pr0fess0r

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, the black is not shadow, its the black behind the gown when the photo was taken. I want to show the gown against different backgrounds so I need the dark areas of the gown to be semitraqnsparent so the background shows through - the darker the area, the more transparent...
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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is this kind of what you're after?


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pr0fess0r

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, that's exactly what I'm after!
How did you do that?
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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow. This is one of those things that takes like 10 minutes to do, but like an hour to type out. I'll post the directions later on today.
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pr0fess0r

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PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great, thanks!
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pr0fess0r

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi, I wondered if you would mind just bulleting the steps you took, rather than writing detailed instructions. I should be able to work it out if I know what you did. Any help would be really appreciated.

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