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Chroma key

Pull a key on a green screen, a solid backdrop, or any flat color — on video, GIFs or still images.

Add it as a layer effect

Chroma key is one of the layer effects, restricted to image, video and GIF sources. It runs at the source's own resolution before compositing, so anything you stack after it — a shadow, a blur — follows the keyed silhouette instead of the original rectangle.

Parameters

ParameterRangeNotes
color—The key color.
tolerance0 – 100How far a pixel can drift from the key color and still be removed.
softness0 – 100Soft ramp past the tolerance edge, instead of a hard cutoff.
spill0 – 100Suppresses key-color spill reflected onto the subject's edges.
featherpxBlurs the resulting matte.
chokepxGrows or shrinks the matte to clean up edges.
edgesOnlytoggleOnly removes border-connected regions, so a same-colored object inside the frame survives.
inverttoggleKeeps the key color instead of removing it.

Keying more than one color

Stack a second chroma key card to key a second color — each card handles one key color, and they compose in order like any other effect.

One-click removal for stills

For a still image you don't want to hand-tune, the background remover applies the same keying math automatically — a fast path to a transparent PNG-style result without opening the effect controls.

The tracker's color-tracking mode uses this same soft-key math to follow an object by its color — see Motion tracking.