It uses a simple color-coded workflow: Green: Areas to keep. Red: Areas to delete.
If you own a license, cherish it. If you don’t, study its workflow—the principles of "Keep, Cut, and Compute" will make you a better masker in any software you use today.
The software ignores arbitrary pixels and instead tracks textures, changes in gradient contrast, and distinct color shifts. It constructs a visual topography layout. This allows large, uniform areas to be instantly flood-filled or cleared with a single click. 2. Advanced Smart Blending
: You can adjust edge width and blending parameters on specific parts of an image without affecting the entire cutout. Vertus Fluid Mask 3 v3.2.4
Vertus Fluid Mask 3 is a professional image-editing plugin designed for precise selection and masking of complex subjects such as hair, fur, glass, and fine edges. Version 3.2.4 is a maintenance/bugfix release that refines stability and compatibility while preserving the core selective-masking workflow that made Fluid Mask popular among photographers, retouchers, and compositors.
The namesake feature. Instead of drawing a hard line around an object, you paint "keep" and "cut" zones. The algorithm analyzes contrast levels around your brush strokes and automatically snaps the mask to the most logical edge.
Users can isolate problem colors directly from a visual histogram. Selecting a shade in the graphic picker marks every identical pigment throughout the patch area for unified inclusion or exclusion. It uses a simple color-coded workflow: Green: Areas to keep
[Load Image & Process Edges] ➔ [Apply Red Delete Brush] ➔ [Apply Green Keep Brush] ➔ [Map Blue Blend Zones] ➔ [Preview & Save Cutout] Fluid Mask 3 - Workflow #1
A common question among users is how Fluid Mask compares to Photoshop's standard methods (Pen Tool, Magic Wand, Color Range, and later, Refine Edge).
Have memories of using Vertus Fluid Mask? Or need help troubleshooting an install? Share your thoughts below—the legacy user community is still active. If you don’t, study its workflow—the principles of
For areas covered by the blue blend brush, use the clean-color sampling tool. Click on the dominant color of the subject and the dominant color of the background. The software uses these samples to calculate exactly which pixels to keep and which to make transparent. Step 4: Preview and Polish
The toolset in v3.2.4 was highly specialized: