Fluid Mask 3 by Vertus Tech: Gallery

Fluid Mask - Gallery

Here are just some of the complex cut outs Fluid Mask can help you create. Our existing customers have sent us these images and we’re sure you’ll agree these are stunning examples of what you can do using Fluid Mask.

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Torrey Pines Michael E. Burk.			This is my second project with Fluid Mask and it worked great. I had an image of Torrey Pines on a late cloudy afternoon and wanted to remove the ocean and cloud background and impose it over a great sunset image.	Fluid Mask 3, worked flawlessly and what you see is the result.

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Torrey Pines
Michael E. Burk.

This is my second project with Fluid Mask and it worked great. I had an image of Torrey Pines on a late cloudy afternoon and wanted to remove the ocean and cloud background and impose it over a great sunset image.

Fluid Mask 3, worked flawlessly and what you see is the result.

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Gothic Yash Mistrey.			The biggest thing for me here was the models hair and without Fluid Mask I just wouldn’t have attempted this photograph.	In a matter of seconds the image was ready for me to work on in Fluid Mask 3. I followed the tutorial instructions on the Vertus site and started to select as much of the background as possible with the delete local brush (red). I then auto filled the image with the keep mask (green). Next and final step was to apply the blending mask (blue) to the areas of hair where the background was shining through...

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Gothic
Yash Mistrey.

The biggest thing for me here was the models hair and without Fluid Mask I just wouldn’t have attempted this photograph.

In a matter of seconds the image was ready for me to work on in Fluid Mask 3. I followed the tutorial instructions on the Vertus site and started to select as much of the background as possible with the delete local brush (red). I then auto filled the image with the keep mask (green). Next and final step was to apply the blending mask (blue) to the areas of hair where the background was shining through...

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Skate or Die! Pierre Perrault			I am new to Fluid Mask 3 and wanted to see what kind of results I could achieve in the least amount of time.	Despite this being my first real attempt with Fluid Mask 3, I thought the results were excellent! I can really imagine now what is possible with a little more practice.

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Skate or Die!
Pierre Perrault

I am new to Fluid Mask 3 and wanted to see what kind of results I could achieve in the least amount of time.

Despite this being my first real attempt with Fluid Mask 3, I thought the results were excellent! I can really imagine now what is possible with a little more practice.

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Rookery Removal Virginia Bacon aka beaucamera			Real life photography often means capturing a scene with problem lighting and background. In this case the rookery made the background complex and the lighting was harsh.	This image involved intricate work to manipulate the keep, delete and blend masks to eliminate as much blending as possible. This made it possible to reduce traces of background that might “stick” to the transparent white feathers. This required, at times, a pixel by pixel adjustment to clean up the masks. I’ve tried feathers before, but find Fluid Mask 3 is much more flexible and easier to use for complex jobs like this one. I never could have gotten results like this without it.

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Rookery Removal
Virginia Bacon
aka beaucamera

Real life photography often means capturing a scene with problem lighting and background. In this case the rookery made the background complex and the lighting was harsh.

This image involved intricate work to manipulate the keep, delete and blend masks to eliminate as much blending as possible. This made it possible to reduce traces of background that might “stick” to the transparent white feathers. This required, at times, a pixel by pixel adjustment to clean up the masks. I’ve tried feathers before, but find Fluid Mask 3 is much more flexible and easier to use for complex jobs like this one. I never could have gotten results like this without it.

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Angel Hair Nataly Tikhonovich			The girl was shot against a very crowded background. The fair hair, is in many places, found on a similarly colored background. What's more, the hair is very fine and in tails and looked like it would require fine tracing work to cut out, what with with individual hairs going in every direction.	The complex mask was put to work here and a lot of fine tuning was also required. I had to very accurately remove as much space between the hairs as possible in order to completely eradicate the background...and it worked!

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Angel Hair
Nataly Tikhonovich

The girl was shot against a very crowded background. The fair hair, is in many places, found on a similarly colored background. What's more, the hair is very fine and in tails and looked like it would require fine tracing work to cut out, what with with individual hairs going in every direction.

The complex mask was put to work here and a lot of fine tuning was also required. I had to very accurately remove as much space between the hairs as possible in order to completely eradicate the background...and it worked!

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The Sky's The Limit Don Michael			Time and work flow is the main problem... if the day was rainy all the images that included sky are processed to remove the gray sky and are replaced with blue sky. Many variables come into play with each image including skylines, trees, power lines, etc. so it's important to have an efficient reliable work flow with post processing tools that can get the job do consistently and quickly.	Different methods were tested and Fluid Mask provided the most consistent and effective workflow... Using Fluid Mask a couple quick clicks on the sky, one click on "Auto-Fill Image, a quick brush on the trees and along the roof tops with the "Blue" Complex Brush, and then a click on "Cut-Out".... bud-a-bing, the image is cut out... Time is money and when clients are happy, I'm happy.

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The Sky's The Limit
Don Michael

Time and work flow is the main problem... if the day was rainy all the images that included sky are processed to remove the gray sky and are replaced with blue sky. Many variables come into play with each image including skylines, trees, power lines, etc. so it's important to have an efficient reliable work flow with post processing tools that can get the job do consistently and quickly.

Different methods were tested and Fluid Mask provided the most consistent and effective workflow... Using Fluid Mask a couple quick clicks on the sky, one click on "Auto-Fill Image, a quick brush on the trees and along the roof tops with the "Blue" Complex Brush, and then a click on "Cut-Out".... bud-a-bing, the image is cut out... Time is money and when clients are happy, I'm happy.

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Hair We Go Again! Team Vertus			The problem with this image is the close proximity of the dark and highlighted hair against a gray background color that shares the same tonal qualities. Trying to mask both shades of hair under these circumstances should be very problematic and only possible with a lot of manual intervention.	Using Fluid Mask 3's new and vastly improved hair blending patches we were able to achieve the seemingly impossible! Within five minutes we created a perfect cut-out of the light and dark hair using the hair blending algorithms available in the Patch Properties (Blending Tab). Who needs a green screen when you've got Fluid Mask 3? (the funny thing is that we have gone from gray to green screen here!)

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Hair We Go Again!
Team Vertus

The problem with this image is the close proximity of the dark and highlighted hair against a gray background color that shares the same tonal qualities. Trying to mask both shades of hair under these circumstances should be very problematic and only possible with a lot of manual intervention.

Using Fluid Mask 3's new and vastly improved hair blending patches we were able to achieve the seemingly impossible! Within five minutes we created a perfect cut-out of the light and dark hair using the hair blending algorithms available in the Patch Properties (Blending Tab).
Who needs a green screen when you've got Fluid Mask 3? (the funny thing is that we have gone from gray to green screen here!)

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It's A Bird! Onyx Lee			The problem with this image was that the background is so complex, especially where the colors are similar to the cat's fur. I had a bad feeling when I took the first glance at the picture.	Well, how did I solve it? After using the almighty FM2, I thought I might be facing too much time consuming post processing on the result. This image took me no more than 3 minutes tweaking the mask of my cat layer and painting in the mask mode of photoshop from time to time. Then, done! Just let FM2 do it. It will never let you DOWN, but always turn you UP!)

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It's A Bird!
Onyx Lee

The problem with this image was that the background is so complex, especially where the colors are similar to the cat's fur. I had a bad feeling when I took the first glance at the picture.

Well, how did I solve it? After using the almighty FM2, I thought I might be facing too much time consuming post processing on the result. This image took me no more than 3 minutes tweaking the mask of my cat layer and painting in the mask mode of photoshop from time to time. Then, done! Just let FM2 do it. It will never let you DOWN, but always turn you UP!)

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Beauty and the Beasts Alexander Bornhed			I wanted to sparkle up this photo a bit further with deeper colors and a few cut in animals. To higher the effect I faded the warmth from the birds up to the wolf. You can also see the temperature on her skin fading.	There was no problem really. With the ease of your complex brush the feathers look beautiful, and so does she. :)

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Beauty and the Beasts
Alexander Bornhed

I wanted to sparkle up this photo a bit further with deeper colors and a few cut in animals. To higher the effect I faded the warmth from the birds up to the wolf. You can also see the temperature on her skin fading.

There was no problem really. With the ease of your complex brush the feathers look beautiful, and so does she. :)

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Image for website Jason Rudmann			I needed to cut out the girl for a clients website. The hair would have been a nightmare to mask out manually.	Using Fluid Mask's complex brush, I had this image successfully cut-out in 5 minutes, with the quality and detail that enabled me to drop the cut-out onto almost any background color I wanted!

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Image for website
Jason Rudmann

I needed to cut out the girl for a clients website. The hair would have been a nightmare to mask out manually.

Using Fluid Mask's complex brush, I had this image successfully cut-out in 5 minutes, with the quality and detail that enabled me to drop the cut-out onto almost any background color I wanted!

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Fluid Mask wallpaper HON3Y			I wished to remove the skeleton and add it to a Fluid Mask wallpaper design I was creating, but was finding it very hard to get a precise cut-out in Photoshop due to the reflections on the original image.	Although I am new to fluid mask, I managed to cut the image out in only 3 minutes! This is a great plug-in. Thank you Fluid Mask team!

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Fluid Mask wallpaper
HON3Y

I wished to remove the skeleton and add it to a Fluid Mask wallpaper design I was creating, but was finding it very hard to get a precise cut-out in Photoshop due to the reflections on the original image.

Although I am new to fluid mask, I managed to cut the image out in only 3 minutes!
This is a great plug-in. Thank you Fluid Mask team!

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Summer Camp Joris Louwes			For an annual magazine for kids summer camps in a natural setting I had to come up with a cover. I had some images and thought about making a collage to express the fun and nature oriented atmosphere for these camps. (images are – background, boy, butterfly)	It proved to be very easy with fluidmask! To use the region editor was really a timesaver. Also the pen tool helped me a lot to isolate the boy from the existing background. (image is CoverNat)

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Summer Camp
Joris Louwes

For an annual magazine for kids summer camps in a natural setting I had to come up with a cover. I had some images and thought about making a collage to express the fun and nature oriented atmosphere for these camps. (images are – background, boy, butterfly)

It proved to be very easy with fluidmask! To use the region editor was really a timesaver. Also the pen tool helped me a lot to isolate the boy from the existing background. (image is CoverNat)

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Mystic unicorn Endre Balogh			Here's a photo I shot of a glass sculpture unicorn surrounded by black velvet. A friend asked me to extract the unicorn and put it onto another background. Normally, I don't have time for such things...	I simply turned on Fluid Mask and since the background was already so clear, it took no time at all to define the background to be Deleted and then use Auto Fill Image to select the area to Keep...

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Mystic unicorn
Endre Balogh

Here's a photo I shot of a glass sculpture unicorn surrounded by black velvet. A friend asked me to extract the unicorn and put it onto another background. Normally, I don't have time for such things...

I simply turned on Fluid Mask and since the background was already so clear, it took no time at all to define the background to be Deleted and then use Auto Fill Image to select the area to Keep...

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Palace gate Endre Balogh			This photo is of the gate to Forest Lawn Cemetery but it is an exact reproduction of the gates to Buckingham Palace. (Out here in California we are known for our mastery of Kitsch.)...	I started by making a layer copy of the gate and then applying Fluid Mask. The Region Editor was most helpful in taking out the white and gray of the background. I only needed to...

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Palace gate
Endre Balogh

This photo is of the gate to Forest Lawn Cemetery but it is an exact reproduction of the gates to Buckingham Palace. (Out here in California we are known for our mastery of Kitsch.)...

I started by making a layer copy of the gate and then applying Fluid Mask. The Region Editor was most helpful in taking out the white and gray of the background. I only needed to...

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Death valley dogfight Endre Balogh			I had a nice photo of a World War I Sopwith Camel and a German Fokker Triplane that I shot at a local Air Show. Fortunately, the photo was against a neutral cloudy...	When I was satisfied that everything was masked out properly it was a simple matter to cut out the airplanes and then drag the layer with the photo of Death Valley...

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Death valley dogfight
Endre Balogh

I had a nice photo of a World War I Sopwith Camel and a German Fokker Triplane that I shot at a local Air Show. Fortunately, the photo was against a neutral cloudy...

When I was satisfied that everything was masked out properly it was a simple matter to cut out the airplanes and then drag the layer with the photo of Death Valley...

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California sunset Endre Balogh			I'm brand new to Fluid Mask but I was very excited by the possibilities of what it might be able do, so I decided to give myself and it a real challenge. I was at a local park with my camera and noticed that the sky behind some oak and pine trees was a fairly neutral cloudy/blue. I shot one photo with the intention of seeing how well Fluid Mask would extract the trees...	Then I moved the finished extraction on top of a pre-existing photo I had shot of a California beach sunset. Before I started the extraction, I made a couple of layer copies of the photo and so all I had to do was paste the sunset into the pile of layers and move it into position for the sunset to show up beautifully...

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California sunset
Endre Balogh

I'm brand new to Fluid Mask but I was very excited by the possibilities of what it might be able do, so I decided to give myself and it a real challenge. I was at a local park with my camera and noticed that the sky behind some oak and pine trees was a fairly neutral cloudy/blue. I shot one photo with the intention of seeing how well Fluid Mask would extract the trees...

Then I moved the finished extraction on top of a pre-existing photo I had shot of a California beach sunset. Before I started the extraction, I made a couple of layer copies of the photo and so all I had to do was paste the sunset into the pile of layers and move it into position for the sunset to show up beautifully...

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Tranquility Oliver Davies			I had a picture of a silhouetted tree with a light sunset background and needed to cut the detailed tree out in order to add a new background.	I mostly used the region editor and worked through colors to keep/delete as the tree was mostly made up of very dark tones. I also used high edge sensitivity and a fine texture filter to...

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Tranquility
Oliver Davies

I had a picture of a silhouetted tree with a light sunset background and needed to cut the detailed tree out in order to add a new background.

I mostly used the region editor and worked through colors to keep/delete as the tree was mostly made up of very dark tones. I also used high edge sensitivity and a fine texture filter to...

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John Davis FLUID MASK winner, amazing image John			I often used Photo shop CS to make alpha plane images for use in my image work, although I was making alphas in PS CS My eye caught the ad for Fluid mask cutout...	I had been working on the pre-image of the nebula for a few weeks at this point (a mask from this photo was a difficult thing to edit) and Fluid mask turned a zen like state...

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John Davis
FLUID MASK winner,
amazing image John

I often used Photo shop CS to make alpha plane images for use in my image work, although I was making alphas in PS CS My eye caught the ad for Fluid mask cutout...

I had been working on the pre-image of the nebula for a few weeks at this point (a mask from this photo was a difficult thing to edit) and Fluid mask turned a zen like state...

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Kevin Oh FLUID MASK winner			I've been working with Photoshop for over 9 years now and although this composite could have been done using Photoshop alone, it would have taken hours and hours.	I thought I try Fluid Mask for the first time. The program is pretty easy to use and finding necessary images took more than the actual work. Great program!

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Kevin Oh
FLUID MASK winner

I've been working with Photoshop for over 9 years now and although this composite could have been done using Photoshop alone, it would have taken hours and hours.

I thought I try Fluid Mask for the first time. The program is pretty easy to use and finding necessary images took more than the actual work.
Great program!

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Crabapple Tree Joseph Potts well done Joseph			There is no way I would have attempted this with the Photoshop tools that are standard with CS2. And I just started playing with Fluid Mask yesterday.	I extracted it from the blue sky using the IIL and increasing the saturation, Then I used the IIL to move the complex parts into the delete bin and that cleaned up all of the residual blue that was leaking into the keep portion...

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Crabapple Tree
Joseph Potts
well done Joseph

There is no way I would have attempted this with the Photoshop tools that are standard with CS2. And I just started playing with Fluid Mask yesterday.

I extracted it from the blue sky using the IIL and increasing the saturation, Then I used the IIL to move the complex parts into the delete bin and that cleaned up all of the residual blue that was leaking into the keep portion...

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Llama Drama Simon Eccles Print Week			A very tricky image: long hair on nearly all the edges some of which are backlit and contrast with the immediate foreground; and a varying background of contrasting colors.	I started by working on a slightly sharpened original and viewing in the blue channel for higher contrast, then using very small brushes to flow the keep mask into hair clumps, I got a result that I'm happy with...

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Llama Drama
Simon Eccles
Print Week

A very tricky image: long hair on nearly all the edges some of which are backlit and contrast with the immediate foreground; and a varying background of contrasting colors.

I started by working on a slightly sharpened original and viewing in the blue channel for higher contrast, then using very small brushes to flow the keep mask into hair clumps, I got a result that I'm happy with...

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Bike Andy Wilkinson Vertus Designer UK			This image posed a three main issues: 1. The background was complicated 2. The bike spokes and road shared similar colors. 3. The bike contained complex detail such as....	I decided it would be best to start by applying keep mask as the black parts of the bike as they were easy to select. Then I upped the IIL setting by...

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Bike
Andy Wilkinson
Vertus Designer
UK

This image posed a three main issues:
1. The background was complicated 2. The bike spokes and road shared similar colors.
3. The bike contained complex detail such as....

I decided it would be best to start by applying keep mask as the black parts of the bike as they were easy to select. Then I upped the IIL setting by...

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Stars and stripes Alex Blishen Vertus Designer UK			This flag has frayed edges and the blue in the flag matches that of the blue in the sky.	I was in a hurry so I forced an edge along the top of the blue section of flag and applied a delete mask to the background which found the edges well...

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Stars and stripes
Alex Blishen
Vertus Designer
UK

This flag has frayed edges and the blue in the flag matches that of the blue in the sky.

I was in a hurry so I forced an edge along the top of the blue section of flag and applied a delete mask to the background which found the edges well...

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Tree Trevor Simons Vertus Designer UK			I wanted to cut this tree from the rest of the image and as you can see both background and foreground are particularly complex...	Before starting I upped the HSL settings in the IIL tool for greater selection accuracy. Also I decided that the image was too complex (complex foreground and background) to use one mask - so I would have to mask both keep and drop masks. Lastly I turned...

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Tree
Trevor Simons
Vertus Designer
UK

I wanted to cut this tree from the rest of the image and as you can see both background and foreground are particularly complex...

Before starting I upped the HSL settings in the IIL tool for greater selection accuracy. Also I decided that the image was too complex (complex foreground and background) to use one mask - so I would have to mask both keep and drop masks. Lastly I turned...

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Model Alex Blishen Vertus Designer UK			I want to cut this model out from the background, the issues with this image are the hair which is very spikey and translucent in places. There are also places where foreground and background colors are very similar such as around the chest...	I didn't adjust any of the IIL settings for this one. I started this image by masking the background which was fairly easy. There were some issues around the chest and neck with mask slipping over the edge. So I used the force edge tool...

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Model
Alex Blishen
Vertus Designer
UK

I want to cut this model out from the background, the issues with this image are the hair which is very spikey and translucent in places. There are also places where foreground and background colors are very similar such as around the chest...

I didn't adjust any of the IIL settings for this one.
I started this image by masking the background which was fairly easy. There were some issues around the chest and neck with mask slipping over the edge. So I used the force edge tool...

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Vase Andy Wilkinson Vertus Designer UK			There isn’t a problem as this is a very simple image to cut out but I’ve included it as the result looks great. I applied a One-Mask to the background	Then I performed an Auto-Fill set to Thin Auto-Complex. There was a little contamination where the frame met the vase on the right but that was easily cleaned up by creating a region...

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Vase
Andy Wilkinson
Vertus Designer
UK

There isn’t a problem as this is a very simple image to cut out but I’ve included it as the result looks great. I applied a One-Mask to the background

Then I performed an Auto-Fill set to Thin Auto-Complex. There was a little contamination where the frame met the vase on the right but that was easily cleaned up by creating a region...

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Angelica Plant Andy Wilkinson Vertus Designer UK			I want to cut out the plant from the sky. It is a complex lattice on a simple background. Other issues are...	I used one mask and opted to mask the background because it was easier. Next I upped the IIL resolution as some of the blues and whites in...

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Angelica Plant
Andy Wilkinson
Vertus Designer
UK

I want to cut out the plant from the sky. It is a complex lattice on a simple background. Other issues are...

I used one mask and opted to mask the background because it was easier. Next I upped the IIL resolution as some of the blues and whites in...

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Frog Alex Blishen Vertus Designer UK			The nature of good camouflage is to have similar colors and similar textures the frog here demonstrates this by being both grainy and practically the same color as the leaf it is sitting on.	On noting the nature of the image I was dealing with (camouflaged, similar colors) the first thing I did was up the HSL settings in the IIL tool. I found by trial and error that saturation does not affect the selection one bit; so I turned it down to 0 which made the selections much more...

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Frog
Alex Blishen
Vertus Designer
UK

The nature of good camouflage is to have similar colors and similar textures the frog here demonstrates this by being both grainy and practically the same color as the leaf it is sitting on.

On noting the nature of the image I was dealing with (camouflaged, similar colors) the first thing I did was up the HSL settings in the IIL tool. I found by trial and error that saturation does not affect the selection one bit; so I turned it down to 0 which made the selections much more...

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Dog and fence James Jones Vertus Designer UK			This image looks colorful but in fact is made up of mainly browns and blacks. This made masking the dog and fence rather tricky.	First I isolated the fence with a region which allowed me to create a keep mask quite easily. Then I removed the region and applied a delete mask to the whole background. I did this with small dabs of the Local delete bush...

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Dog and fence
James Jones
Vertus Designer
UK

This image looks colorful but in fact is made up of mainly browns and blacks.
This made masking the dog and fence rather tricky.

First I isolated the fence with a region which allowed me to create a keep mask quite easily. Then I removed the region and applied a delete mask to the whole background. I did this with small dabs of the Local delete bush...

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Pumpkin Alex Blishen Vertus Designer UK			While this looks simple it is in fact quite tricky as all the pumpkins contain the same colors.	The solution is to up the IIL settings. I took Keep and Delete samples from the main pumpkin and the pumpkin to the left...

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Pumpkin
Alex Blishen
Vertus Designer
UK

While this looks simple it is in fact quite tricky as all the pumpkins contain the same colors.

The solution is to up the IIL settings. I took Keep and Delete samples from the main pumpkin and the pumpkin to the left...