The Edge That Kills Your Composite: A Working Artist's Guide to Masking That Actually Holds Up

The Fringe Nobody Talks About Until It’s Too Late I had a client deadline at midnight and a subject that had been shot against a gray background instead of the agreed-upon green screen. The photographer had swapped setups last minute, didn’t tell anyone, and I was left with a woman in a silver dress standing in front of a surface that shared about 40 percent of its tonal range with her outfit.