unwanted transparency in cutouts

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Ed_Cread
Dec 21, 2007
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I am working in PSCS3 and am trying to extract a subject from a green screen background. I used color select initially to create a selection from the background image (no additional layers created), but had to tweak the selection quite a bit with the quick selection tool. I’m pretty happy with how tight the selection is to the subject (the dashed lines of the selection are hugging the subject’s outline very closely), but when I copy the selection into another image, it appears that the selection has areas of slight transparency (dark parts of hair, facial features). I can confirm this by moving the cutout an inch or so off its original position in the source photo, and seeing a light gray image in the cutout area.

Any advice on how to get a 100% opacity on the cutout would be appreciated!

Ed
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Phosphor
Dec 21, 2007
How did you create the transparency, by deleting or making a mask? If you made a mask the solution is obvious…edit the mask. If you deleted, much more difficult.
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Ed_Cread
Dec 21, 2007
How did you create the transparency, by deleting or making a mask? If you made a mask the solution is obvious…edit the mask. If you deleted, much more difficult.

Thanks for this reply, but I am confused by your question regarding how I "created the transparency". I do not want any transparancy at all; I only want to extract/copy a selection from its green-screen background and paste this selection into a different image/PSD file. The problem is that the selection that I am taking into the other file is partially transparant.

Make sense?
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Phosphor
Dec 21, 2007
You don’t want any transparency, but by "extracting" you created some.

This is undoubtedly a result of the color select. Some of the color existed in those areas you didn’t want selected.

My suggestion is that after you make the selection, press Q to get into Quickmask mode. That will show you very clearly what pixels are selected. You can "paint out" the parts you don’t want to be part of the selection.

The default mask color is red, so you will want to paint out any light red in those areas with white. The light red indicates a partial selection, which will translate into semi-transparent when you bring it into another file.

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