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Comparison Table (Selecting Tools) Print E-mail
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 -- - 
Inside Shadow tool button
- 
Outlines the shadow area to be dropped - - -

OUtside shadow tool button

 -
Marks or outlines the  area to be kept
Fill tool
Keep Highlighter
Keep Exact toolLocal Keep toolKeep Global tool
Inside Object tool
Paint Foreground toolFill Foreground
Marks or outlines the  area to be dropped-
Drop Highlighter tool
Exact Drop toolDrop Local toolDrop Global tool
Outside Object tool
Paint Background toolFill tool
Defines the color to be kept
eyedropper tool
keep eyedropper
 -
pin
 -
Defines the color to be dropped 
drop eyedropper
 
pincer
 
Extracts the edge
edge highlighter
magic brush
complex brushes
 -
paint unknown
Erases or restores pixels -

brushmagic brush

 - - -
Detects edge
edge highlighter
Smart Highlight

Edge detection

 - -
Corrects the selection
eraser
 -
erase
Add/Subtract Inside/Outside
erase
Allows to draw the edge by hand -
magic penpen
force edge
 - -
Masks all pixels of alike color -

magic wandmagic brush
Apply tool to all (Ctrl+A)

-

 - -
Finds edges in textured imagesTextured image-
texture filter
 --
Touchup tools
Restores image pixels
clean up
(Alt)
Brushrestore mode
 -
touch up brush
 -
Erases image pixels -
brusherase mode
 -
eraser
 -
Refines the selected edge
clean up
magic brushdual mode
 - - -
Fills stray pixels in the selection -
magic fill
clean
 - -
Erases or restores all contigious pixels from the point clicked -
fill tool
 - - -
Allows to fine-tune the edges -
air brush
 - - -
Refines the edge-
chisel
 - -
Creates a blend of transition -
blur tool
smooth
edge feather
 -
Defines colors to be kept or droppedForce Foreground enabled

keep colorsdrop colors

create region
 - -
Shows the extracted imagePreview button -
test render

Apply (Shift+Ctrl+A)

Views     
Displays the original imageShow Original
original view
source tab
Original (Ctrl+1)
view foreground
Displays dropped areas as a gridDisplay None
single layer
grid
 - -
Displays dropped areas as solid colorDisplay Other
solid
colored
Underlay color
 -
Displays alpha channelDisplay Mask
mask
 -Alpha (Ctrl+4) -
Displays 100% dropped areas as white, 100% kept areas as white, and transition areas as gray -
clean up
 - -
view mask
 Displays the extracted image on an underlying layer -
composite
-
underlay image
view composite
Displays erased areas as white/gray/blackDisplay white/Gray/Black matte----
Displays the underlying layer -

 -

-  -
view background
  Other
 Quick masking Apply tool to all (menu) Quick maskAuto Inside/Outside Object button -
Allows individual and composite channel views -
channels
- - -