Photoshop Plug-in

AlanHodgson

Hi everyone,
I've been using P'shop on and off over the last couple of years mainly for the web at quite an amateurish level - but wanted to get more serious - so I am looking at Plug ins. Someone mentioned Vertus - a company that apparently do them - does anyone know anything about their range?

ta,
Alan

cletus

AlanHodgson wrote:

Hi everyone,
I've been using P'shop on and off over the last couple of years mainly for the web at quite an amateurish level - but wanted to get more serious - so I am looking at Plug ins. Someone mentioned Vertus - a company that apparently do them - does anyone know anything about their range?

ta,
Alan

Welcome Alan,

I'm not familiar with Vertus. Hopefully someone will chime in with some words of wisdom

wxwax

Hi Alan, never heard of 'em What kind of plug-ins are you interested in?

I suspect folks here can recommend plug-ins for many effects.

AlanHodgson

Hi there,
thanks for the replies
I found out more on the cut out plug in I was interested in - its called Fluid Mask - link here: http://www.vertustech.com/fm_overview.htm

any thoughts?

Alan

wxwax wrote:

Hi Alan, never heard of 'em What kind of plug-ins are you interested in?

I suspect folks here can recommend plug-ins for many effects.

ian408

It makes some interesting claims. Too bad it's not available yet.

Ian

Adelphi03

The Fluid Mask plugin has recently become available to download as a free trial though for the Mac only at the moment I'm afraid.

I gave it a whirl myself recently and found it very impressive on the several images I tried it on. As for using it, the plugin comes with the usual brush and pen tools for applying mask areas manually or you can let the software find edges automatically.

What I found especially useful was the region editor. It allows you to fine tune the mask selections you've made, sort colors, reduce or expand the color range on a pixel by pixel basis and assign those colors into the three masking types: keep, delete or complex (edges between your keep and delete sections).

It's the perfect tool (if a little pricey) for taking your cutout workflow to the next level it's thats the sort of thing you're after.

XO-Studios

AlanHodgson wrote:

Hi there,
thanks for the replies
I found out more on the cut out plug in I was interested in - its called Fluid Mask - link here: http://www.vertustech.com/fm_overview.htm

any thoughts?

Alan

Nice, however not $399 nice.

XO,

Adelphi03

XO-Studios wrote:

Nice, however not $399 nice.

XO,

Alternatively he could try Corel's Knockout 2 which is substantially cheaper. However, I've never used it so am not best placed to recommend it. Has anyone tried both it and Fluid Mask and how do they stack up against one another.

Adelphi03

XO-Studios wrote:

Nice, however not $399 nice.

XO,

Just found out that Vertustech have finally reduced the price of the Fluid Mask plugin to $249 and increased the free upgrade period from six to twelve months. Still expensive no matter how good the results IMO.

Adelphi03

Adelphi03 wrote:

The Fluid Mask plugin has recently become available to download as a free trial though for the Mac only at the moment I'm afraid.

Looks like they finally got around to launching a version for Windows as well now.

cletus

Adelphi03 wrote:

Looks like they finally got around to launching a version for Windows as well now.

Thanks for the update!

Tom K.

This link should help you: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7020106~root=avatar~mode=flat