Comments on: Fluid Mask vs. Mask Pro vs. Primatte / Round 2 http://johnyonko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/fluid-mask-vs-mask-pro-vs-primatte-round-2/ Experimental Thoughts Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Barliman Butterbur http://johnyonko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/fluid-mask-vs-mask-pro-vs-primatte-round-2/#comment-313 Barliman Butterbur Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:12:22 +0000 http://johnyonko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/fluid-mask-vs-mask-pro-vs-primatte-round-2/#comment-313 Using Fluid Mask: how does one deal with a subject that includes wispy hair, cigarette smoke and soap bubbles against a very busy multicolored background? What's the approach? ANSWER: Approach with caution. Using Fluid Mask: how does one deal with a subject that includes wispy hair, cigarette smoke and soap bubbles against a very busy multicolored background?
What’s the approach?

ANSWER: Approach with caution.

]]> By: Larry Leuallen http://johnyonko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/fluid-mask-vs-mask-pro-vs-primatte-round-2/#comment-311 Larry Leuallen Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:33:56 +0000 http://johnyonko.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/fluid-mask-vs-mask-pro-vs-primatte-round-2/#comment-311 For the second image with a brown background, Fluid Mask was far easier with perfect results. Both programs have serious faults. I have had both lock up on me. Fluid Mask is missing some serious tools that Mask Pro includes: an erase/restore brush, a very good pen tool, and a chisel tool. Mask Pro handles extractions using colors better, the interface is much more intuitive. Fluid Mask is confusing. Mask Pro has more control over the edge quality. Mask Pro has a better interface: include more Photoshop like commands such as spacebar ctrl/alt to zoom in or out. They both lack the ability to create alpha masks that include the color decontamination data. The work around of creating the mask from the extraction afterward looses the decontamination data. Alpha masks are preferred over extractions in some applications. That said, I sometimes don't use these programs and just make a mask. For the second image with a brown background, Fluid Mask was far easier with perfect results.

Both programs have serious faults. I have had both lock up on me. Fluid Mask is missing some serious tools that Mask Pro includes: an erase/restore brush, a very good pen tool, and a chisel tool.

Mask Pro handles extractions using colors better, the interface is much more intuitive. Fluid Mask is confusing.

Mask Pro has more control over the edge quality.

Mask Pro has a better interface: include more Photoshop like commands such as spacebar ctrl/alt to zoom in or out.

They both lack the ability to create alpha masks that include the color decontamination data. The work around of creating the mask from the extraction afterward looses the decontamination data. Alpha masks are preferred over extractions in some applications.

That said, I sometimes don’t use these programs and just make a mask.

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