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.

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

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.

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.

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!

Time and work flow is the main problem...

...if the day was rainy all the images that included sky are processed to remove the grey 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.

The problem with this image is the close proximity of the dark and highlighted hair against a grey 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 availablke 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 grey to green screen here!)

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!)

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

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!

Although I am new to fluid mask, I managed to cut the image out in only 3 minutes!

This is a great plug-in. Thankyou Fluid Mask team!