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Earlier this month I had posted for help and discussed this with a couple of you guys, and you requested I post back and let you know how things went, so here it is, Thanks again for any info that you posted.
The job was for a Team photo on a 5×7 master of a mountain scene, this was to be done by
doing a shot against a green screen backdrop and then layer the image onto the master.
Create the Master (Mountain image with company logo – 300 dpi) and got prior approval.
Printer; Tested both DieSub and Epson Photo,
(Diesub is recommended for this type of job as it is faster but we went with 2 Epson R800 Photo)
Green Screen Job
We had limited space and columns in the way so it may it very hard for lighting (which is very important) So we decided to shoot sideways in the booth, we got there early and did some test shots found the correct position for the indivuals and placed duct tape of the floor for their location, forgot what Fstop we used, we took a couple memory cards with us so when I was working Adobe the Photography had an empty cards.
Speed is an important factor as I got extremly busy, everyone love the picture and wanted one. I associated the jpgs with adobe so I would not get the stupid popup (Which Program do you want to use) I created an action to rezise the image to 4×6 at 300 dpi and to make it a layer for editing (The 4×6 was used, to all the individuals to be proportionate to the 5×7 Master)
I imported the first test image to set the color range, change the fuzziness slide bar to 30 and the selected the
backdrop then adjusted it up till I found the right value, around 70.
So the steps were
1. Photographer shot a couple of either indivual or group shot
2. Gave me the memory card, had plug in a reader to the usb hub
3. Had the memory card reader drive open on the desktop and just refresh the view to see the image
4. Double click to open the image in Adobe (File Association to make it quicker)
5. Resize, changed resolution and open for editing (Action – Set it to F2)
6. Chose Select->Color Range->Click OK (Depending on Picture 70 was good but if individuals we wear green had to change it.
(Could have set this to action as this turned out to be just another step, only had a couple of people wearing green)
7. Drag the image to the Master (never had to remove the green) 8, Had some shadow in the left coner of every image, I suspect it was the lighting, so a quick magicwand cleaned this up
(Making sure the image of the shot was selected.
9. For the Paper we chose 8 1/2 x 11 Glossy Photo Paper, Prior to printing I selected in PS File->Automate->Picture Package the set the page size to 8.0 x 10, 2 5 x 7, 300 Pixels/inch. (Allowing us to get two shots per sheet, then used a slicer
to trim the picture.
10. Then off to the printer, here were we slowed down a bit (Diesub probaly would have speeded this process up) one major
pain was the printer profile, I had setup the profile to highest picture, and glossy paper but it would not hold the setting, I had two printers going all day, so each time I sent the job to a printer I had to check the setting, I could have used another printer and printer bug was a real pain.
All in all was a very busy day, everyone loved the pics including the customer, but I was exhausted.
Hope this help, if anyone has any questions please let me know. Bob Smith
The job was for a Team photo on a 5×7 master of a mountain scene, this was to be done by
doing a shot against a green screen backdrop and then layer the image onto the master.
Create the Master (Mountain image with company logo – 300 dpi) and got prior approval.
Printer; Tested both DieSub and Epson Photo,
(Diesub is recommended for this type of job as it is faster but we went with 2 Epson R800 Photo)
Green Screen Job
We had limited space and columns in the way so it may it very hard for lighting (which is very important) So we decided to shoot sideways in the booth, we got there early and did some test shots found the correct position for the indivuals and placed duct tape of the floor for their location, forgot what Fstop we used, we took a couple memory cards with us so when I was working Adobe the Photography had an empty cards.
Speed is an important factor as I got extremly busy, everyone love the picture and wanted one. I associated the jpgs with adobe so I would not get the stupid popup (Which Program do you want to use) I created an action to rezise the image to 4×6 at 300 dpi and to make it a layer for editing (The 4×6 was used, to all the individuals to be proportionate to the 5×7 Master)
I imported the first test image to set the color range, change the fuzziness slide bar to 30 and the selected the
backdrop then adjusted it up till I found the right value, around 70.
So the steps were
1. Photographer shot a couple of either indivual or group shot
2. Gave me the memory card, had plug in a reader to the usb hub
3. Had the memory card reader drive open on the desktop and just refresh the view to see the image
4. Double click to open the image in Adobe (File Association to make it quicker)
5. Resize, changed resolution and open for editing (Action – Set it to F2)
6. Chose Select->Color Range->Click OK (Depending on Picture 70 was good but if individuals we wear green had to change it.
(Could have set this to action as this turned out to be just another step, only had a couple of people wearing green)
7. Drag the image to the Master (never had to remove the green) 8, Had some shadow in the left coner of every image, I suspect it was the lighting, so a quick magicwand cleaned this up
(Making sure the image of the shot was selected.
9. For the Paper we chose 8 1/2 x 11 Glossy Photo Paper, Prior to printing I selected in PS File->Automate->Picture Package the set the page size to 8.0 x 10, 2 5 x 7, 300 Pixels/inch. (Allowing us to get two shots per sheet, then used a slicer
to trim the picture.
10. Then off to the printer, here were we slowed down a bit (Diesub probaly would have speeded this process up) one major
pain was the printer profile, I had setup the profile to highest picture, and glossy paper but it would not hold the setting, I had two printers going all day, so each time I sent the job to a printer I had to check the setting, I could have used another printer and printer bug was a real pain.
All in all was a very busy day, everyone loved the pics including the customer, but I was exhausted.
Hope this help, if anyone has any questions please let me know. Bob Smith
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