Therefore, the green camera channel contains the least " noise " and can produce the cleanest key / matte / mask.

This magazine was printed on matte paper and contains erotic but non-pornographic images of young men.

Unlike the limited collector's edition, the second print is lower in price and is shipped in standard CD trays, but still contains the booklet included with the first 1000 copies of the album, though with normal printing rather than a matte / gloss coating effect on the cover.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

Film makers may also reverse this process, creating an original image that includes visual information that extends above and below the widescreen theatrical image ; this is called " open matte ".

Where a miniature appears in the foreground of a shot, this is often very close to the camera lens — for example when matte painted backgrounds are used.

The scenes of the Bird-of-Prey on Vulcan were combinations of live-action footage — actors on a set in the Paramount parking lot that was covered with clay and used backdrops — and matte paintings for the ship itself and harsh background terrain.

* A Holga's interior can be " flocked "— coated with matte black paint — in order to limit the effect of light bouncing off the plastic interior from light leaks.

Depending on the model, this panel was painted in the body colour or a matte grey — this facelift was unique to Australia.

The alloy headed " super " saloon got these changes plus a spray-on black, instead of silver, tail panel — the texture of this changed from textured fake vinyl to a matte black over the year's run.

* African Blackwood ( Dalbergia melanoxylon ) is often mistaken for ebony as it is a dense fine grained black wood — but ebony is matte black as opposed to African Blackwood, which has a reflective translucent quality in its grain.

The circlet is polished with acanthus ornamentation with a matte finish around the gemstones alternating with groups of three oak leaves set in a fan shape around a pearl.

In film, this is an example of a static matte, where the shape of the mask does not change from frame to frame.

The placing of " soft " subtitles within the picture or matte varies according to the DVD player being used, though it appears to be dependent on the movie for Blu-ray disc.

Gilliam also worked on the matte paintings, useful in particular for the very first shot of the three wise men against a starscape and in giving the illusion of the whole of the outside of the fortress being covered in graffiti.

Highly scattering surfaces are described as being dull or having a matte finish, while the absence of surface scattering leads to a glossy appearance, as with polished metal or stone.

Textures of flower surfaces may be glabrous and shiny, to matte, to finely haired, and some being quite hairy.

It was widely used in the first half of the 20th century before being almost completely replaced by the travelling matte and bluescreen effects.

The extra keys, all at the bass end of the keyboard, were originally hidden beneath a hinged panel mounted between the piano's conventional low A and the left-hand end-cheek to prevent their being struck accidentally during normal playing ; more recent models have omitted this device and simply have the upper surface of the extra natural keys finished in matte black instead of white to differentiate them from the standard 88.

By the end of the decade, the time of hand-painted matte paintings was drawing to a close, although as late as 1997 some traditional paintings were still being made, notably Chris Evans ’ painting of the Carpathia rescue ship in James Cameron ’ s Titanic.

Schumacher's FXX differs from others in being black without a stripe, having red trimmed wheels, matte rather than chrome exhaust tips, and his personal logo stitched on the racing seats.

The fruit is a pome, 2 – 3 cm diameter, with wide-spreading persistent sepals giving a ' hollow ' appearance to the fruit ; it differs from Common Medlar fruit in being bright glossy red when ripe ( not matte brown ).

From the partially exposed film, a single frame is then projected onto an easel, where the matte is then drawn.

This atmosphere will turn clay black, making an unattractive, matte color, without sheen.

The matte artist is a part of the special effects department who assists in making scenery and locations that do not exist.

Around 1925 another method of making a matte was developed.

An example of the distinction between specular and diffuse reflection would be glossy and matte paints.

While target shooters generally prefer a matte black finish to their sights, to reduce the chance of glare and increase the contrast between the sights and the light bars, black sights don't offer good visibility with dark targets or in low light conditions, such as those often encountered in hunting, military, or self defense situations.

A non-angled " slab " piece of wood to which a textured paint that didn't call for any polishing was applied, as well as necks with a matte painted back instead of the " Oil & Wax " finish applied to the higher-end models made up the bulk of the changes between the lower and higher model lines-quite simply, " Production Hours " were reduced as opposed to the quality of the wood, hardware, or electronics that allowed the ' SUB ' line of guitars & basses to be made at their price-point without a loss of their trademark quality.

Such a furnace is known as a submerged arc furnace because the electrode tips are buried in the slag / charge, and arcing occurs through the slag, between the matte and the electrode.

The eight triangular points of this radial crown are in a matte finish with similar acanthus ornamentation, while between each of these points they are joined to each other on either side and to the circlet itself with a pair of acanthus scrolls supporting a group of five oak leaves around a pearl similar to those on the circlet.

It is extremely obvious that this composition is a matte shot: the pyramid in the background is a superimposed painting, with the sand dune concealing the join between the live action and the matte.

There could be no direct contact between the live action and the matte background.

Another variant of trompe-l ' œil is matte painting, a technique used in filmmaking where parts of a complicated scenery are painted on glass panels which are mounted in front of the camera during shooting of the scene.

A " garbage matte " is often hand-drawn, sometimes quickly made, used to exclude parts of an image that another process, such as bluescreen, would not remove.

In order to combine these image elements correctly, it is necessary to keep an associated matte for each element.

A monochrome raster image where the pixel values are to be interpreted as alpha values is known as a matte.

Likewise, the vision, which appeared within a circular vignette or matte, was similarly superimposed over a black area in the backdrop to the scene, rather than over a part of the set with detail in it, so that nothing appeared through the image, which seemed quite solid.

Letterbox mattes are usually symmetrical ( both the top and bottom mattes are roughly similar in size ), but in some instances the picture can be elevated so the bottom matte is much larger, usually for the purpose of placing " hard " subtitles within the matte to avoid overlapping of the image.

They call their approach to full-screen versions reframing: some shots are pan and scan, while others are transferred open matte ( a full widescreen image extended with added image above and below ).

The background image is then rephotographed through the male matte, and the shot rephotographed through the female matte.

By creating the matte from an image directly from the film, it became incredibly easy to paint an image with proper respect to scale and perspective ( the main flaw of the glass shot ).

The Schüfftan process has largely been replaced with matte shots, which allow the two portions of the image to be filmed at different times and give opportunities for more changes in post production.

This technique, used in photographing matte paintings, is called latent image matte painting.

As a result, since no gelatin emulsion is used, the final platinum image is absolutely matte with a deposit of platinum ( and / or palladium, its sister element which is also used in most platinum photographs ) absorbed slightly into the paper.

Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage.

decal lenna_stencil. tga # stencil decal texture ( defaults to ' matte ' channel of the image )

In 2009, Columbia Pictures released in Europe a Spanish-titled DVD " La Leyenda de Billie Jean ", with 4: 3 open matte image, but without any bonus material.

If the image is matted during the filming process it is called a hard matte due to its sharp edge.

The name stems from the fact that the matte removes " garbage " from the procedurally produced image.