Comparison Table (Selecting Tools)

In the table below you can see the tools every plug-in offers for selecting images. Differently organized, they, nevertheless, often do the same thing. In the first left column of the table we see the tools function.
The plug-in names are in the table’s header and will link you to the review pages.

	Extract	MaskPro	Fluid Mask	KnockOut 2	EZ Mask
Selection tools
Outlines the shadow area to be kept	-	-	-		-
Outlines the shadow area to be dropped	-	-	-		-
Marks or outlines the  area to be kept
Marks or outlines the  area to be dropped	-
Defines the color to be kept			-		-
Defines the color to be dropped
Extracts the edge				-
Erases or restores pixels	-		-	-	-
Detects edge	Smart Highlight	Edge detection	-	-
Corrects the selection		-
Allows to draw the edge by hand	-			-	-
Masks all pixels of alike color	-	Apply tool to all (Ctrl+A)	-	-	-
Finds edges in textured images	Textured image	-		-	-
Touchup tools
Restores image pixels	(Alt)		-		-
Erases image pixels	-		-		-
Refines the selected edge			-	-	-
Fills stray pixels in the selection	-			-	-
Erases or restores all contigious pixels from the point clicked	-		-	-	-
Allows to fine-tune the edges	-		-	-	-
Refines the edge	-		-	-
Creates a blend of transition	-				-
Defines colors to be kept or dropped	Force Foreground enabled			-	-
Shows the extracted image	Preview button	-		Apply (Shift+Ctrl+A)
Views
Displays the original image	Show Original			Original (Ctrl+1)
Displays dropped areas as a grid	Display None			-	-
Displays dropped areas as solid color	Display Other				-
Displays alpha channel	Display Mask		-	Alpha (Ctrl+4)	-
Displays 100% dropped areas as white, 100% kept areas as white, and transition areas as gray	-		-	-
Displays the extracted image on an underlying layer	-		-
Displays erased areas as white/gray/black	Display white/Gray/Black matte	-	-	-	-
Displays the underlying layer	-	-	-	-
Other
Quick masking		Apply tool to all (menu)	Quick mask	Auto Inside/Outside Object button	-
Allows individual and composite channel views	-		-	-	-