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Image masking - image cutting
Posted by admin | Posted in Resources | Posted on 21-11-2008
Today i will start talking about an very important aspect in designers/photographers life like masking and cutting an image. Are not few the times when you have an nice picture, but something is not fitting right in there and you want to change the background, and in order to do that you have to smoothly cut the picture, and after that you are free to do anything. But cutting sometimes can be a really big pain in the ass…
These are those moment when you think that the only help could come from professional programs like Fluid Mask 3 which by the way beats all the competition. Why i say that beats the competition, because i tryed it, and here is an example picture of what it does:
As you can see the details are impressive, this tool has a set of easy to use tools to isolate a difficult area (in a Patch) and apply alternative edge finding and blending techniques - making easy the tricky parts of image cutting.
Also it is not very difficult to use because, the documentation is very well present, and an set of self explaining tutorials are available on vertustech site. The tutorials explain in detail how to start, special techniques to use, masking tricks.
