Hello! My name is Katey Coppola. Sorry.
This is a short tutorial to tell you how I cut things out of a white background, because damnit if I can make green screening work. And I’ve totally done Ryker’s tutorial like 200 times and nope, still nothing.
If this is rubbish and teaches you nothing, I’m sure we can both agree that it is somehow Suti’s fault.
Thanks for watching! Or not watching, whatever.
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31 responses to “Second Life Photography Tutorials – cutting out from a white background”
Why didnt I find this 5 yrs ago? lol
I was fine until I got to the white halo part. That technique didn't work. Still have a ton of white around my person and the layer – remove white matting that someone else suggested didn't work either. The first part of the tutorial was amazing though. Thanks.
Love it
some of my items don't go black like my shoes or jewellery how can I make them black like the rest of my body? Thanks x
what viewer are you using????
I'm using firefox, and whenever i want to edit the sky preset gamma, everything turns black.. can you show me how to do it just for the avatar?
Your white background needs to be full bright and for some reason white (rgb 255,255,255) can't be used because all the pic is totally back (firestorm viewer anyway, not sure about sl viewer), so I use 253, 253 ,253 which on full bright the background comes up white anyway and your avi is totally black.
Thank you for sharing this 😀
I have the same problem!
Hey, I'm trying to use this technique, but no matter what, the background comes in black if I turn gamma down. Any suggestion? In origin it's in white
maybe you are an expert. ^.^ I am not.. and I did found this video very helpful 🙂
you have to have a full bright white background to get hte sill image. so no background on what you're doing
Hi.. whenever I change the gamma to 0 also my background where I'm taking the pic at is turning black ><" Please help.
Hi Katey, In the new sl I can't seem to find the advanced environment settings… Its changed.. help
i used to play that game and make band tees till there is to many creepy ppl on there i just quit the game so i warn yall for reals creepy ppl on there,,,
@eksorrell What viewer are you on?
I have a question (sorry to be a pain in the ass) but in sl how do you get the advanced sky editor option? I've searched for a good hour and I can't find it at all.. :/
oh the part where it said hold Alt and click the white box at the bottom and press CTrl and C to copy it again and CTrl i right?? THE BLACK PICTURE DONT GO INTO THE WHITE BOX WITH THE COLOR PICTURE WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!??
OH MY GOSH this is a Godsend for editing around Truth hair!! Thank you!
I'm entering my avvy into her first modelling competition and your vids are by far the most helpful I've found. I wish you weren't so hard on yourself too, you're good!
I had the exact same problem, with turning full bright one, and turning the gamma all the way down, and it just showing black, untill i used grey instead of white, and tinted it untill it was like 1 point from white, which is essentially white.
The only problem is, (and i'm not sure this is related) when i used the alpha in PS it cut off huge chunks of the image, including the head.
Does anyone have any solutions to this?
This works REALLY well with light back grounds but not dark ones… any tips?
@RicePudden NVM i am an idiot who doesn't listen to direction LOL
@zilzilii Try Ctrl + J to make a copy before using the Matting?
@TheMrYin I have tried that option myself, but the matting feature is greyed out. Is there a way to use it?
I find a better way of removing the halo is: "Layer > Matting > Remove White Matte", but the first steps was really helpful, thankyou!
@kateycoppola I have done these settings, but instead of getting a silhouette the whole screen goes black. Anything I am missing?
The white halo wouldn't go away for me sadly, not sure why ;[
@PortCityLiipsz i use firestorm and it still works
this is amazing, i love you forever
Hi katey could you please make a tut on how you take your pictures in sl?… btw love your store XD