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I personally haven't tried Knockout2, but Fluid Mask's power and accuracy honestly impress me, but consider: at $400 this isn't exactly a plugin for the John Everyman home Photoshop user. This is a little more for high-end and professional environments, some of which I've worked in, where difficult and very, very high-detailed masks and cutouts like this need to be made on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. Tools like this make mince-meat out of difficult-to-mask areas such as hair, and hard to cutout areas such as this frog, where the colors in the overall image are tough to discern for normal selection and lasso tools. If you're a home user who's mainly interested in delving into Photoshop's power, I'd rather recommend picking up a good book that teaches you the fundamentals of making a good selection and masking using the already-powerful tools Photoshop gives you out of the box. Hope this helps!