Fluid Mask - Manuals and Tutorials - Specific Masking

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If you wish to download any of the Fluid Mask 3 tutorials below, please make sure you install the Flash Movie viewer software first. Click here to download the FLV player.

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7. Hair and Lattices

a. Hair Blending
The first of a few tutorials on Hair Blending – this time dealing with hair in and out of the sunlight.

Tutorial Start

b. Tree and Lattices #1
Two examples in one tutorial. The first with the background lighter than the foreground where the task is to preserve the all important highlights on the leaves; the second more difficult with well defined branches and flowers where the foreground is both lighter and darker than the background.

Auto Fills

8. Hair and Action Scripts

Learn to create a quick script to automatically deal with hair for you.

Tutorial Venturing Further

9. Hair

How to deal with hair.

Tutorial V2 vs V3

10. Invert and Alpha Edit

a: Invert and Alpha Edit
Some images are very tricky, here’s an example of a way to get round this.

Tutorial V2 vs V3

b: Invert and Alpha Edit
Some images are very tricky, here’s an example of a way to get round this.

Tutorial

11. Smoke

Smoke can be difficult and as we receive a lot of questions about this we thought we’d create a tutorial to answer.

Tutorial

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