Webcam Overlay photoshop

Webcam Overlay photoshop

Our trailer uses a webcam scene to convey elements of privacy within social networking. In order to achieve a realistic format we have to apply a webcam overlay to this footage.

A problem that we encountered when searching for a webcam overlay was that none of them had a transparent background. To overcome this dilemma we saved the image and opened it in Photoshop with a transparent background and used the eraser tool to erase the black background that was part of the original webcam overlay. This proved to be time consuming but it was a good alternative to using a webcam overlay that did not have a transparent background at all.

However, once we did this, we found a downloadable version of a webcam overlay that could be downloaded and applied to footage straight away. We simply imported the overlay into iMovie, making sure that advanced tools were switched on and then dragged it on top of our footage and selected "picture in picture" from the menu and finally adjusted the size of it around the frame of our footage. We had to make sure that the webcam overlay remained the same size throughout all the footage that we applied it to as it was clear when the size of it dropped.