Photography ideas, camera & image editing

In a previous, I said that my Sony Cybershot S700 digital compact camera broke down again.

A few days ago, I sent it to the Sony Service Centre in Orchard Road, Singapore. By the way, I live in Singapore.

Yesterday, a staff from the service centre called me. He said that my camera is going to be send to Hong Kong to be repaired. He said that the repair will take a couple of weeks. I told him I am fine with the arrangement.

Man, I have not been to Hong Kong for a long time. The camera travels more than me. LOL.

There are many Photoshop Plugins. One of the more useful one is Fluid Mask 3. More specifically, it is a Still Image Cut Out Tool.

Basically, this photoshop plugin is a masking and selection tool par excellence. Masking tasks that were virtually impossible to be carried out otherwise are competently dealt with by Fluid Mask 3. These include selecting objects as challenging as hair. The images below show the capability of this plugin in selecting hair.

One of the strength of Fluid Mask 3 lies in its ability to easily isolate a difficult area and applying alternative edge finding and blending techniques to it.

Additionally, Fluid Mask 3 can also perform intelligent edge blending. What this means is that this tool is able to understand the width and attribute of the edges. Because of that, it is able to determine the most appropriate edge width, even when feather function is being used.

On tests carried out with comparable masking tools, the results showed that Fluid Mask 3 performed significantly faster. Fluid Mask appears to be about 3 times faster than other masking tools.

To see the power of this plugin, you may want to view some photoshop tutorials that illustrate the functions of Fluid Mask 3. >> See Photoshop Tutorials.

OK, I must confess that although I use Photoshop at work, I am a regular GIMP user at home. How I wish that such as tool is available for the GIMP.

If you are looking for a tool to create superior photoshop mask, you should check out this plugin. You can download a trial version here.