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Vertus Fluid Mask
Photoshop plug-in makes creating image cutouts as easy as painting by numbers.
There are some trade show demonstrations that can stop attendees in their tracks. Usually they involve scantily clad booth vixens chucking plastic key chains emblazoned with a manufacturer's logo into the arms of a swarming crowd, but sometimes an interesting product demo is all it takes to draw people's attention.
Such was the case at the small Vertus booth hidden in a far row of the upper level of the PMA convention earlier this year. Vertus was showing off its latest Fluid Mask plug-in for Photoshop which is designed to simplify the process of making image cutouts. In the presentation, a Vertus demonstrator was using a digital brush to paint red streaks in the background of an image of a girl's hair.
When he was done "painting" a few seconds later, the demonstrator hit a button on the software and the background disappeared while the girl's wild hair remained intact. Poof! There was nary a booth vixen in sight but the crowd was transfixed.
Of course, there's usually a big difference...