Vertus Fluid Mask 3.3.12 Portable by llexandro

Vertus Fluid Mask 3.3.12 Portable



Fluid mask is on its third instalment and the upgraded version is now faster at working,
blends edges better and has a Save settings feature for if you want to mask multiple
images in a studio shoot for instance.

Vertus fluid mask 3 page layout First things first

If you are new to a program like this, there are three pages to the Image titled Source
which is the original image, Workspace which is where you will work cutting the image out
and Cut-out which will show the final image.

On the workspace to the left are several tools which are dedicated to helping you create
your masterpiece. The top six are split into three different brushes of green and three
red. The green brushes are called the Keep brushes which will retain any parts of the
image covered with that brush and the red ones are the Delete brushes which don't really
need explaining. The three types of brush are Exact, Local and Global. Exact will either
Keep or Delete the precise pixels you click on whereas Local will Keep or Delete the
masked area that has been clicked on and Global will scan the image for pixels of the
same colour and Keep or Delete those. Other brushes in your arsenal are an Eraser, a
Blend brush which is a great tool for working with hair or fur, Patch tool to create an
area over a particular part of the image to work in and gives a preview of what the cut
out will look like, Forced edge tool which can be used to change or add a mask line by
clicking areas where you want the line to go and double clicking to finish, Colour sampler
which is generally used with images that have lattice work like a fence for instance and
you can choose the colours to be blocked out without having to Delete the space manually,
Preview, Clean tool for filling in small holes in the masked image, Select tool which
selects patches and lines drawn using the forced edge tool, Hand tool to pan around the
image when zoomed in and Zoom. You can also change the background colour in case the colour
of the subject is the same, perform the final Cut out, Change the Colour workspace or
change the work window.

On the right are the Navigator which will show which portion of the image you are zoomed
in on, for example. The Edge finding tool which allows you to adjust the value of what
the mask finder will search for, an Edge blending tool for determining the size of the
blend line between the Keep and Delete parts of the image and a tip box for help whilst
you work which I think is a nice touch if this is your first time using the program.

Cropping the image

Loading the image into Fluid mask automatically enables the program to scan the image
for potential masking areas so the image will look like a paint by numbers image already
coloured in. First thing is to colour in the Delete areas as they are bigger and therefore
easier to do. The brush defaults to a large size but this can be amended using the slider
at the top of the screen and once that is done, the Keep areas can be filled in. If there
are areas that are similar in contrast Fluid Mask can include them in the Keep area so a
patch has to be created to cover those parts. Fine strands can be covered with the Blend
brush which will highlight blue and clicking on the Preview will give an idea of how this
will come out. The red area in Fluid Mask doesn't transfer and regardless of the colour
the background is set to, it will be transparent when merging with another image.