{"id":21921,"date":"2022-02-26T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green_screen_queen_dynamic_video_transparency_fit_for_royalty"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T13:14:46","slug":"green_screen_queen_dynamic_video_transparency_fit_for_royalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/green_screen_queen_dynamic_video_transparency_fit_for_royalty","title":{"rendered":"Green Screen Queen: Dynamic Video Transparency Fit For Royalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you were reading your social media or news feeds on or around June 11 this year, no doubt you came across your fair share of posts about Queen Elizabeth and her outfit-color faux pas. For her 90th birthday, she chose a solid neon green suit, and it didn\u2019t take long for Photoshop fanatics to suggest alternative designs for the Queen\u2019s green-screen threads.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, this wasn\u2019t the only time Her Majesty embraced the green screen effect with her wardrobe. Back in June 2016, the Queen wore a bold, neon green outfit that immediately became a meme on the internet. Photoshop enthusiasts were quick to respond with creative and hilarious photo edits of the queen\u2019s outfit, showcasing the playful interaction between royal fashion and modern technology.<\/p>\n

In April 2020, during a historic speech, the Queen again donned a green dress. This choice promptly set the internet abuzz, as royal fans transformed this appearance into a series of entertaining memes. These instances, alongside her frequent choice of green attire for birthdays, underscore a recurring theme. As explained by the Countess of Wessex in the documentary \u201cThe Queen at 90,\u201d this vibrant lime green is often chosen to help people spot her in crowds, inadvertently making it ideal for green screen creativity.<\/p>\n

Replacing her green suit with the famous blue or white dress<\/a> is just one of many examples<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Cloudinary<\/a> is loved by developers for, among other things, its huge collections of on-the-fly programmatic image and video transformation options. Automatically generating an image<\/strong> that replaced the Queen\u2019s greens with an alternative design using Cloudinary image transformations would be no challenge.<\/p>\n

But we wanted a challenge. So in honor of the Queen, Cloudinary now supports its make_transparent <\/code> parameter also for video<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Given that in video, the color you want to make transparent is usually a moving target, this involves a more sophisticated algorithm for us, but it\u2019s still just one on-the-fly transformation away for you.<\/p>\n

For example, look what you get if you place the Queen\u2019s Coach Ride video as an overlay over a nice animated hearts video, and then apply the new dynamic video transparency parameter (make_transparent<\/code>) to the Queen\u2019s green (hex color #87ff66<\/code>) suit. You guessed it\u2026 A Queen of Hearts<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the URL for this video looks like, or click your favorite language to see how you would generate the URL in your web or mobile app using one of our many SDKs:<\/p>\n

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Seeing through the URL<\/h2>\n

In case you haven\u2019t played with Cloudinary transformation URLs before, here\u2019s a quick walk through (or \u2018see through\u2019, if you will):<\/p>\n