I read at least two major photography trade magazines. I know the brand name Extensis much better than I know onOne software so somehow the former Extensis did a better job of getting their product known than the new company (I attend Photokina every two years and I attend either PMA and/or PhotoPlus at least every year). Of these four surviving software companies Corel has been able to hold its ground. So out of six masking software plug-ins for 1999-2004 (or stand-alone software), two seem to have disappeared and another two switched owners. MaskFX from autof/x (not available under this specific name)

Magic Mask from Chroma (seems not to exist any more ?)

Cinematte was and still is from Digital Dominion, a division of Nova Design.Įxtensis Mask Pro, now part of onOne software. The Kaidan QTVR object rigs include blue and green knockout background colors. But as part of history, here is our list for 1999-2004.ĪutoMask 4.0, today it is version 4.6.Ĭinematte, being a photographer I am especially interested in this. Today is 2009 and we are gradually moving our web site to new formats, so now we have a new introductory page for masking software available in 2009. This page was initiated in 1999, and updated in 2004. Unfortunately we have so much software that it is hard to keep up, so the reviews are often still “upcoming.” At FLAAR our four on-staff photographers use Nikon, Canon, Hasselblad, PhaseOne, and large-format digital cameras (BetterLight and Cruse). That’s what we are curious about also, since we constantly have to mask objects in our own digital images.

But how do these products improve over what Adobe Photoshop version 5.5 through & and CS4 now offer? Now you can get AutoMask, Ultimatte Knockout, Cinematte, or Extensis Mask Pro for half that over priced Creo(Scitex) product. Ten years ago you paid $850 for a Creo(Scitex) masking software. Masking Software for Adobe Photoshop CS4.

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