TimerPlanGreen screen
Chroma panel
- ColourWhite
- Hex#FFFFFF
Maximum light. The neutral choice for a video call when the room is dark.
Dimming lays a black veil over the panel — a browser cannot reach the backlight, so this changes the light in the room, not the power the screen draws.
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What colour is a green screen?
The TimerPlan chroma panel fills a display with #00B140, the saturated green used for keying backdrops, and offers #0047BB blue for the shots where green is a problem. Green is chosen not because it is special but because almost nothing in an ordinary scene shares it — skin, hair and most clothing sit far away from it, so software can separate subject from background cleanly.
Blue exists for the exceptions: a subject wearing green, holding something green, or with green in the branding. Film crews keep both for exactly this reason.
A monitor makes a small backdrop rather than a wall-sized one, so it suits a hand, a product, a pet or a head-and-shoulders shot on a phone. What matters more than the colour is the lighting: an evenly lit panel keys far better than a brighter, patchier one.
The two values, and when to use each:
| Panel | Hex | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| Chroma green | #00B140 | The default — nothing green in shot |
| Chroma blue | #0047BB | Subject wears, holds or contains green |
Both are on the swatch row along with white, black and the warm and cool whites, so a single tab covers lighting and backdrop.
If the panel is behind the subject, something else has to light them — the white screen on a second device is the usual answer, and warm or daylight white depending on the room. To check the panel for dirt or reflections before a take, the black screen shows what the green hides.
Frequently asked questions
Why green rather than blue?
Two reasons that have nothing to do with the colour itself. Digital sensors carry twice as many green photosites as red or blue, so the green channel is the least noisy one to key from; and green is further from human skin tones than blue is, which means less spill and fewer edge artefacts on a face. Blue was standard in the film era because film stock behaved differently, and it survives for shots where green is in the frame.
Does the exact hex value matter?
Less than the lighting, but it is worth getting right. #00B140 is what keying paint and backdrop fabric are made to, so matching it keeps the software’s default settings useful. Any strongly saturated green will key; a pale or greyish green will not, because keying works on saturation and hue distance rather than on brightness.
Can I really use a monitor as a green screen?
For a small subject, yes. A 27-inch screen behind a hand or a product is entirely workable, and a tablet behind a phone-held object is the classic setup for social video. What a screen cannot do is fill the frame behind a whole person — for that you need a fabric backdrop, and the same rules about even lighting apply, only over a larger area.
How do I avoid green spill on the subject?
Distance and dimming. Spill is bounced light, so moving the subject away from the panel reduces it more than any software setting; if that is impossible, dim the panel — a slightly darker green keys just as well and throws less light. Most keying software also has a spill suppression control, which is the last resort rather than the first.
How this works
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The three things that decide a clean key
Even light. A patchy backdrop is the usual cause of a ragged edge, not the wrong shade.
Distance. Subject away from the panel: less spill, softer shadow, cleaner edge.
Saturation. Any strong green keys; a washed-out one does not, however correct the hex value.