Fluid Mask 3 (for Quark Users)

Every two weeks Quark VS InDesign​.com and XChange International gives away 2 great prizes–an extra­or­di­nary xten­sion for QuarkXPress and an incred­i­ble InDesign plug-in. All you have to do to win is…

• Become a Quark VS InDesign​.com mem­ber (free), and;
• Throw your name into the give­away hat at the bot­tom of this page.

That’s all. No pur­chase or song and dance nec­es­sary. A win­ner will be cho­sen at ran­dom from those who enter on this page.

This con­test has end­ed. On 2008-01-27 we gave
Fluid Mask 3 from Vertus
To John B. of Chicago, IL USA

Congratulations, John! Get some prizes for your­self on our Contests & Giveaways page.

The Photoshop Plug-In We Gave Away This Time

Fluid Mask 3
Photoshop Plug-In from Vertus

Fluid Mask 3 is designed for pho­tog­ra­phers, image edi­tors, graph­ic design­ers and all those who take dig­i­tal image edit­ing seriously.

In a stream­lined inter­face and work­flow, Fluid Mask 3 instant­ly shows key edges in the image and pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lat­tices. Fluid Mask 3 (the pro­fes­sion­als choice) takes mask­ing to the next lev­el. Quick to pick up and intu­itive to use ­ get great results fast!

Fluid Mask promises:

• Fastest mask­ing avail­able today – from load­ing to final cut-out. Turn hours of tedious work into some­thing that’s short to com­plete and fun to do…
• The best edge cut­ting tech­nol­o­gy avail­able. Quick and easy to pick up, Fluid Mask 3 offers an intu­itive work­flow. Check out the edge guides that makes select­ing the cut-out as easy as colour­ing by num­bers and the always vis­i­ble inter­ac­tive help.
• Amazing edge qual­i­ty. Always thought the pen tool makes cut-outs look a bit too arti­fi­cial and clean? Now Fluid Mask 3 takes blend­ing to a new lev­el by pre­serv­ing the edge data. In the final result, nat­ur­al edge blur and con­tour is pre­served for the best, most authen­tic cut-outs ever.
• Faster ini­tial image pro­cess­ing For multi-core machines, Fluid Mask 3 runs its ini­tial image pro­cess­ing up to 40% faster. With ever grow­ing image file sizes our every­day image edit­ing tools need to catch up ­ Fluid Mask 3 runs faster than ever.

Localised edge detec­tion and blending
It¹s a true-ism when cut­ting out objects from their back­grounds that often 90% of the time is spent on 10% of the image ­ get­ting a dif­fi­cult edge ³just right². Fluid Mask 3 now has a set of easy to use tools to iso­late a dif­fi­cult area (in a Patch) and apply alter­na­tive edge find­ing and blend­ing tech­niques – mak­ing easy the tricky parts of image cutting.

Intelligent Edge Blending
Fluid Mask 3 not only finds edges but also under­stands the width and char­ac­ter of an edge. On edges which are large­ly free of noise and where there is some con­trast between fore­ground and back­ground, Fluid Mask 3’s intel­li­gent blend­ing is the only blend­ing around to auto­mat­i­cal­ly extract the mor­phol­o­gy (char­ac­ter) of an edge – remem­ber there is no such thing as a 6 pix­el feath­er on all edges in real life! Use feath­er blend­ing where there is no con­trast or lots of noise in an edge. Fluid Mask 3 will still find the cor­rect edge width.

Great new tools for colour based selec­tions Use the Colour Workspace and the Colour Sampler to make extreme­ly fine colour based mask selections.

For Windows XP and Vista; Mac 10.2.8 and above. Works with Photoshop CS2 and CS3 as well as in stand­alone mode.