I didn't buy Fluid Mask from Amazon, but people who are considering it need to be aware of their stringent, unpredictable, and unstable licensing protocol. Every time you open Fluid Mask, it checks your license against their server. Don't happen to be online? Tough luck: you can't use the product. I mean YOU CAN'T USE IT--you can't even open a photo.
It gets worse. As A Richards pointed out in his review, if VertusTech's license server thinks you are using a different machine, it will lock you out. A month ago, when I got the most recent upgrade, this is exactly what happened to me. I have not changed desktop computers, I have not loaded it onto my laptop--I have played by their rules completely. But I can't even open a photo because on startup I get a nonsensical error message from their server, and then all menu options except Exit are disabled.
Despite many e-mails back and forth to Vertus Tech--many of mine unanswered, by the way--despite uninstalling and reinstalling five or six times, and despite uploading a diagnostic dump to VertusTech (God knows what personal information I wound up sending them), the problem is still not fixed one month later. When Vertus Tech bothers to answer my e-mail inquiries, they assure me that they're working on the problem. It's clearly not a priority for them at all--either that or the latest release is so screwed up, and they have received so many complaints, that they simply don't know which way to turn by now.
Either way, skip this product. When it works, it's not bad. But my projects have been dead in the water for an inexcusablly long time now, and I'm going on to Corel PhotoPaint, which appears to have a much nicer extraction and masking tool.
Even if it's not nicer, it will be an improvement if it's at all usable.Get more detail about VERTUS FLUID MASK FOR WIN/MAC.
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