Originally posted by: Darth Editous
Anyone got any bright ideas how I could go about removing Palpatine from a frame, so I've got a clean background to work with? At first I thought taking the darkest pixel from every frame might work, but it doesn't. For what I want to do, I need as accurate a background as possible.
DE
Anyone got any bright ideas how I could go about removing Palpatine from a frame, so I've got a clean background to work with? At first I thought taking the darkest pixel from every frame might work, but it doesn't. For what I want to do, I need as accurate a background as possible.
DE
I was watching it and, there are a few frames where he's darker then usual and, the backround shows through.
Frame 1:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3466/pdvd0112xb.png
Frame 2:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9250/pdvd0120mj.png
Frame 3:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1425/pdvd0134cr.png
I don't think he get's any darker then those above frames. Also, if this can be of any help here's a capture of the Emperor in the story of Star Wars DVD.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/3082/pdvd0148gs.png
Hope this helps.
