She Has a Name: Unveil Studios Offers Humanitarian Perspective through Filmmaking (Article/Retrospective)

Posted by on Feb 15, 2017 in Articles, Behind-the-Scenes, Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases | 0 comments

She Has a Name, the latest independent film out of Canada-based Unveil Studios, is a dark documentary-style thriller based on the taboo subject of human sex trafficking. More than a movie for filmmakers and brothers Andrew (writer), Matthew (director/editor/colorist) and Daniel (director/editor) Kooman, She Has a Name is human rights statement designed to remove the public’s numbness to what has become a global epidemic.

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Keying and Background Removal in Photoshop, Part 2: Primatte Chromakey (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Feb 13, 2017 in Articles, Featured, General, Software, Tips, Tutorials | 0 comments

If you work in video, you may be familiar with Red Giant Primatte Keyer. Red Giant’s Primatte and Digital Anarchy Primatte Chromakey both use Primatte chromakey technology, developed by Imagica Corporation in 1982. [Wikipedia] The last update for Primatte Chromakey for Photoshop was January 2012, but it does work in current versions of Photoshop.

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Keying and Background Removal in Photoshop, Part 1: The Pre-Process (Article/Tutorial)

Posted by on Jan 30, 2017 in Articles, Featured, General, Tips, Tutorials | 0 comments

If you’re working with still photography, it’s often necessary to cut someone out of the background to place them into a new scene or to add special effects. While there is no specific “Chroma Key Tool” that is built into Photoshop, it still has great tools for removing the background and other elements from an image, non-destructively.

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