I often need to extract (create a layer mask) for a bird or animal with fine feathers or hair. Not exactly easy, especially when there is little contrast (color or luminosity) between the edge of the lion and dried grasses in the background.
I have tried Fluid Mask and have had a bit of success with it but the plug in is unstable in my hands (I guess 2GB of memory is not enough for the 16-bit Canon 1Ds Mk II files, even at 8 bits I run into memory errors unless I dramatically reduce PS's memory usage).
Any suggests for other plug-ins or approachs that work?
Thanks
Rich