How To Retain Green Screen Shadows and Fine Details | After Effects Tutorial

How To Retain Green Screen Shadows and Fine Details | After Effects Tutorial

September 10, 2021
Cody Vineyard

Here's how to preserve dark-colored details like shadows and hair strands from your green screen plates.

Dark details in your green screen footage can be very difficult (and extremely time-consuming) to key. So how do you isolate these fine details, like shadows or dark hair, and composite it back into your shot effectively? We will show you!

This After Effects tutorial covers:

  • How to extract and composite shadow from a green screen plate.
  • Applying the same technique to key out details on dark hair.
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