Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Keying out backgrounds with green-screen


First you go to Select option at the top of the mac and select Colour Range.




This then opens up a new box which allows you to select the part of the image you don’t want.



After you have selected the part of the image you do not want it will select and you then delete the part of the image that has been selected.



When deleted you will get a clear background which allows you to put it against a different background of your choice.

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Editing, selection and processing - Internet research

JPG
JPG is a file extension for a lossy graphics file. The JPEG file extension is used interchangeably with JPG. JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group who created the standard. JPG files have two other formats, which are JPG/Exif.

TFF
The TFF file extension is initially made for the capable versions of Macintosh operating systems (Mac computers). Files of the TFF format are defined as TrueType Font, which are modules containing alphabet character sets to be used under its text generating applications, like Microsoft Word and others which need text.

PNG
Portable Network Graphics (PNG), is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most used lossless image compression format on the Internet.

BMP
The BMP file format, also known as bitmap image file or device independent bitmap file format or simply a bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device, especially on Microsoft Windows.

PSD
A file with the PSD file extension is an Adobe Photoshop Document file. Other types of files may also use the PSD file extension.
AI
Adobe Illustrator Artwork (AI) is a file format developed by Adobe Systems for representing single-page vector-based drawings in either the EPS or PDF formats. Adobe Illustrator uses the .ai filename extension.
WMF

Windows Metafile (WMF) is an image file format. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components.