green screen extraction action for photoshop

Green Screen Extraction Action For Photoshop How To Batch Process

It looks like a great time saver, if it works as well as the demo video indicates.

FIne hairs, frayed edges, and subtleties in perimeter shading all got nuked.

If I were to submit photos in that condition to my clients, Id get fired.

All I can say is that, after tweaking the settings for a couple of minutes, I was getting results Id be happy with for my SL adverts (which isnt a particularly high standard, to be sure).

Autmated process have no way of telling the fine details the human eye can read.

Hot Folder will automatically close the current image and look for the original green screen image to close.

There is now a much simpler dedicated system for automating sports compositions.

However, Hot Folder is a more advanced program designed for skilled Photoshop users.

The user can set up any custom workflow through the use of Photoshop actions in Hot Folder.

The Sports Photo Automation software in the link above is simpler and doesnt require Photoshop actions.

If you are not an advanced Photoshop user then the Sports Photo Autmation program is recommended instead of Hot Folder.

Green Screen Extraction Action For Photoshop How To Batch Process

However, if you want to learn how to batch process the ENTIRE workflow then read the tutorial shown below.

Just know that this workflow does require features that are only contained in Hot Folder.

This includes opening the image, extracting the green screen (Dual Mask EZ Green Screen), copying the extraction into the poster, re-sizing, moving, entering the text for the name, saving, closing, and opening the next image for the batch process.

If you make a quick selection around the hair prior to extraction, it can optimize the 2 areas differently.

The samples below are from the image that was extracted in the 78 second demo video.

The samples below is unedited and are the exact results from the video.

Also see how the hair retains a nice feather edge that doesnt look cut and pasted.

This level of detail is made possible with EZ Green Screens dual mask software algorithm.

Best of all, it only takes a few seconds to lasso around the hair.

I batch process 3 actions using Hot Folder.

The first action is set up to crop only, nothing else.

The action is setup with the show dialog box checked so I can adjust the crop location or rotate the image.

If you shoot with the green screen covering the entire frame then you can skip this step.

However, I find its better to keep the screen smaller because it creates less green spill.

For that reason, I choose to shoot with a smaller green screen set up and then crop each image.

The second action is setup to extract the image with EZ green Screen (action is recorded for dual mask processing).

This allows me to lasso around the hair to enable the dual mask extraction.

That way, I can touch up the mask if needed.

The last action is setup to open the background and then move the extracted image into the new background.

There are also steps in the action setup with the show dialog box checked where I can scale or move the foreground and change the players name.