So, after someone recently posted a how-to on making a real photographers backdrop, I decided to play with making them digitally.

One of them was made with a scanner, one with my camera, both were then heavily modified to get that backdrop look:

 Blue background
Brown background

Here's a picture I used working with a modified version of the blue background: Mary in Uniform

Oh - if you really want to know, the background in the portrait is the blue background - which was originally a scan of a crumpled up t-shirt. Brown background started out as a macro-focused picture of some mulch.

Do you think this is a useful techinique?