Traveling Through Digital Waters

Although in principle digital backgrounds are as easy to work with as drag-and-drop, achieving a seamless effect is more complicated. First, Balint chooses a handful of backgrounds that he feels will be appropriate for the look and feel of Magellan’s, and he outputs them to a Kodak DCP9000 digital color proofer. For each target image, he and Salas work through a preparation checklist to ensure that the models will blend effectively into the background: