MASK PRO - Why can't Adobe add masking like this ! - wow !

This week, I saw a guy working on a project using a product by OnOneSoftware.com called "Mask Pro"
He was extracting a woman from a very busy background. He effortlessly removed the woman, including strands of her hair in under a minute.
I wonder why Adobe cannot implement something so powerful in Photoshop ?
I am actually amazed at how well this program worked, I'm not sure if it is a plugin or stand-alone program, but it worked side-by-side with Photoshop.
This Mask Pro works by quickly picking colors that you want eliminate and ones you wish to keep. Each time you click on a color you wish to keep, it loads them onto a little column and you see the colors appear. Then you choose ones you wish to eliminate. These appear on another column. Amazing how this works !
You then take the special paintbrush tool, and just run over any area, such as the hair, and magically, it removed ALL background but leaves even the smallest strands of hair intact ! - It is truly wonderful to see.
I'm sure Adobe knows about this product, so I wonder why they cannot make something similar, or just buy the company out and implement their product in Photoshop. You have to see this tool in use to actually believe it.
Thanks,
Dave.

FWIW I don't even own any plug-ins and have used many selection tools and
know how to make a decent selection
I use color range, magic wand, magnetic lasso, refine edges and combos of
those
Also tried Russell Browns channel technique for flying hair etc (his example
is on a plain gray cyc) and that hideous pen tool
a complicated mask make might take me a couple hours and I feel my time is
worth more
the service bureau does it for $2.50 overnight
the one I sent was FREE as a trial of their service
and I was quite pleased with it
for me the choice to farm out that un-creative task depends on the job,
things like number of images to complete in the time frame given
I prefer to use my time with an image for more the subjective changes, like
color balance, light, filters, adding creative techniques, fixing what I
want to
it is like the choice to use a lab to print or do it all yourself
benefits to both and choice dictated by the assignment
after all once we didn't have to sit and process all our own images they
went to an E6 lab
and we paid them to do it
so many things we did manually can now be done by a computer program such as
replacing part of the background with parts from another frame
adding softer depth of field by a plug in
skin smoothing etc
even windows live has stitching (even a little kid can do it as the
commercial shows)
resisitance is futile

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