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Removing image backgrounds

I'd like to shoot flower bouquets against a background that I can easily make transparent with Photoshop and then place the new image on any color background I want. The question is, what is the best background to shoot against? White is probably not best because then any white daises in the bouquet would become transparent when I removed white. It seems the background should be a color that's not in the bouquet. Is there a color that's designed so that it can always be removed later, even if there are similar colors in the content, perhaps, a "blue screen," or a special matte?

Thanks for any ideas.
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Serena Hsi

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steva

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Yes, charcoal sounds good, or maybe black. I was hoping someone had come up with a color that had some special chemical in it that Photoshop could pick out like a sore thumb, but which never occurs in nature.,

steva

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Thanks for the ideas, Serena. I'll look through them. Regarding the camera set up, I'm not the photographer but she generally shoots with an Cannon EOS 70D.

Paul Sauvé

I don't think that there any any 'chemicals' that exist in an image that photoshop could pick up

maybe you are thinking fluorescent painted background that shows under a uv lamp and does not affect what you are shooting...

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Shaun Vermaak

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Paul Sauvé

in my experience, no matter what the background color, there will always be vestiges of it around the outer edges of the image

i have tried lime green background and depending on the subject, but there is still a degree of background in the image

i suggested a light gray since that will probably give you the best result to change to a transparent background, but of course it depends on the image

here is a question i participated about 2 years ago that is basically the same problem:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28600432/How-to-change-the-background-color-s-of-a-photo-using-GIMP.html

steva

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Thanks everyone for the ideas!