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November 26th, 2007 - 3:42 pm
I’m using Mac Leopard’s version of Photo Booth for my YouTube Debate videos, but have run up against a problem I just can’t seem to fix. Low-contrast areas, like my hair, show right through to the special effects backdrops. And let me tell you, even just the appearance of having large chunks of your head missing is a little disconcerting.
I’ve tried increasing the lighting, darkening (and lightening) my backdrop–pretty much everything. Anybody have experience with this?
Damn. Wish I could help you, but I have not experience with that.
Have you considered wearing a wig?
Seriously, your best bet is to do something to change the ambient light level along with changing the background.
I thought about this a bit last night and came to at least part of the same conclusion that rosignol came to. Change the background. If you treat the background like a real green screen, it will probably make the faux green screen effect work better. Did you hang anything behind you like a flat sheet? That might work.
Obviously the solution is to go back to the golden-kissed hair in your picture of 5 years ago.
Duh.
Did you try changing the background environment? Maybe if you do a simple color backdrop (i.e. greenscreen)… it would better render your various chiseled features