[thelist] Name That Technique?

Tommy Martin tommy at vertebrate.co.uk
Fri Nov 23 10:26:59 CST 2001


>What's the technique called whereby an object in a photo is stripped of
>its background using an alpha mask so that it can be dropped onto
>another background?

Compositing, matting, or chroma/alpha/luma-keying (depending on how 
you make your matte).

tommy


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