Green screen – the bread and butter of any sci-fi movie special effects team. Giant robots attacking cities, wizards flying on a broom and superheroes climbing mount Everest – now in you home and on your computer. Isn’t technology great?
Well if you do not know the trick, here is simple explanation: make a picture of anyone or anything using included green sheet as a background, import you picture into the product and green background magically becomes transparent. Now you can position the person or object at the picture anywhere at the *other* background picture.
Want to fake you trip to Paris? No problem – all you need is to find suitable picture of the Eiffel Tower, make picture of yourself at the front of green screen and then combine you and the tower together using Westcott Green Screen. Zoom, rotate and move your image until it is a perfect match.
Installation is simple, interface is clean and easy to use. The only thing you should be aware of – the screen sits folded in the box for a long time, so before you start you really want to put it into washer machine or use old good iron to get rid of bends.
Another important advice – do not wear anything green in front of the camera, unless you want to create a special effect from “Invisible Man” movie. The more expensive version of this software allows you to patch unintentional green “holes” in your image, but not this one.
The main problem with this software is to find any practical use to it. It is fun to make collages, it is obviously a great entertainment for your kids and…well… that is about it.
Well, I found one though. If you sell something on the internet, the green screen gives you great tool to make pictures of your product(s). Unless, of course, they are green (to be frank, in this case product allows you to use other color for the background).
Finally, for those who owns Photoshop or some other multilayer sophisticated image tools: yes, yes, you can mimic the functionality using filters and layers. I was able to be almost as good as Westcott – for some particular shots, but in general Westcott consistently beat me down in speed and quality.
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