![]() ![]() ![]() It's as though it takes over the identity of Photoshop. However, Photoshop can't be opened again while Fluid Mask is open. Interestingly, when Fluid Mask opens, it temporarily closes down Photoshop as it disappears from the task bar. To use it as a plug-in for Photoshop, you must have the picture you want to manipulate open then go to the Filter tab and choose Vertus at the bottom of the list. Installation only takes a few minutes after download and the program is ready to go. The full version is available as a trial for 14 days and when you decide to buy it after, you can input the licence key directly in the program. We downloaded the program from the Vertus website which is quick and easy to do. Vertus Fluid Mask 3.2 costs $149 £99.99 and is available at. The base program is now around 4 years old but Vertus have been upgrading and improving it to what it is today. Its unique segmented masking procedure makes selecting the parts of the photograph you want to keep easy even for ultra fine details such as hair or fur. Hope in future version vertus will add a Reconstruction tool which allow reconstruct any part of the image from the source image and Freeform Force Edge drawing tool which gives more flexibility.Vertus Fluid Mask 3.2 is a high quality masking program for what is essentially cutting images out and putting on top of others. Secondly, if you don’t have a Dual Core processor then in the complex images “Finding Edges” takes a lot of time, because this is a processor intensive task. Advanced and Beginners level online training running 2 and 5 times respectively. But you can overcome with this problem by downloading some small quicktime and flv movies from the website ( You can also attend the Free Live Training online on a fixed time and ask the questions if any, this works like you are sitting in a classroom. Now let’s talk about the things which are not good like Help installed with the plug-in can be much better, you can’t learn much from the current help installed with the plug-in. We are currently reviewing the version 3.0.2 in which they made some additional improvements like Vastly improved loading speed of CMYK images or 16-bit images, Zoom shortcuts, including "+", "=" and "-", Improved performance of Patches’ preview feature. As you can see in the below image the white background which is see-through from the cloth was also remove easily in a few seconds, which is very difficult to remove manually or using any other program. Photoshop like feeling in the interface and docking toolbars allow easy customization.įeatures like Color Workspace for selection, Analyze Patch Separately for better edge finding, Edge Blending according to low-res or high-res image, Feather and Smart Blending for out of focus shots, Test Rendering are amazing and strengths of this plug-in. Masking in every image takes few minutes if you know the tools well but simple images only takes 2-3 minutes for professional cut-out. When you open an image, Fluid mask will automatically break the image in few sections according to the color and contrast for faster masking. Fluid Mask is launched from the Filters menu in Photoshop. Fluid Mask 3 works as a plug-in to Photoshop and Standalone program. But this is not the case with company called Vertus and their latest product called Fluid Mask 3.įluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In today’s market where user is very demanding and computers are very fast and if your product isn’t able to use that power then that’s useless. but many of them are not provided with the updates from several years. We have looked various plug-ins from Extensis, Corel etc. Masking is very easy to do in Photoshop with all these tools but sometimes it gets difficult and tedious due to lot of contrast and texture in the background, foreground, hairs and trees in the scene. Extract objects, Remove a background each of these phrases describes the same objective: take a photo and remove the background cleanly. ![]() Efficient selections are essential skills for any Photoshop user, whether a graphic designer or professional photographer. Layer masks, vector masks, Magic Wand, Quick Mask, Extract command, Background eraser tool etc help in making clean selections and extracts. In programs like Photoshop many tools and methods for selecting or extracting parts of an image is available. Normally, what you do in Photoshop begin with a selection, using the Selection tools is a fundamental Photoshop skill.
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