Thought I'd post this anyway just in case you couldn't get that filter to work in Photoshop Elements 7,įirst, make a copy of the image and desaturate it to make it black and white. My end product doesn't look as good as Mark's though. The screen shots are in CS3 my preference but worked with Elements limitations to show you how easy she can be selected without any filters.

If you want I can upload my changes, either the psd or a jpg version.įWIW, She is really easy to select on that green screen if you use a few tricks. Oh yes, I also did some playing around with color correction and levels to brighten her a bit. Since the selected areas included some of the hair and the hair was dark anyway, removing the color was negligable. In a couple tiny areas this didn't work, so I again selected these areas and applied a Hue/Saturation with the pull-down list default of Master and moved the Saturation left to totally remove the color. In a few small areas where GML Matting did not remove the green, I selected around these areas and applied a Hue/Saturation change where I selected green from the pull-down list and moved the Saturation slider all the way left to remove the green. I added the white layer so you can better see the result. It works especially well in extracting fine areas such as hair, as you can see in my example: This tool extracts an item from a picture and places it on a transparent background. I used the freeware PSE add-on GML Matting to remove the background.

Adobe photoshop 7.0 change background