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as an illustrotor user, for those looking for multiple vector objects as a mask, you need a group, at that point you can put as many vectors as you need in it, plus, keep in mind that affinity works with opacity as a factor of transparency (not black & white as it is in Illustrator). This is my second attempt to move on to afinity, but damn...i miss some basic stuff! like, now i'm trying to figure out if there's any spacing options beetween the objects..or if can move the artboard without moving the objects... I find the interface of Affinity really childish, which upset me a bit as i feel i'm using some app for my kids - and i really miss the collapsed panels, don't understand why it's not possible in designer. I know i can hide the UI, but i really got so much used to it in ai..hope i can cope with that as my new job requires me to use affinity + macintosh, and gues what? i'm on windows since 1994 and using adobe since 2002..argh.
wow it's like you heard me, i was , literally just saying to my husband i need to find a video on mask s in affinity Designer and then this video popped up.
what i'm looking for is an option to invert the pixel mask (black turned to white, white turned to black) but i can't find such an option. can you help? thanks in advance 🙏
Hi @Core2TOM, thanks for the question! Unfortunately, I do not think there is a way in Affinity Designer to do that. In Affinity Photo, it is quite easy but for some reason that option is missing in Affinity Designer.
Hi @GarrettBM...do you mean that you are done with the selection? You can clear the selection by pressing CTRL-D or choosing the menu option Select -> Deselect. Hope this helps!
Hi @@TechnicallyTrent , yes, I was following along with the tutorial, doing it step by step with you, and I got stuck with the marching nats and clicked all kinds of different things.... your command D worked for me (on apple). I do not know where the Select deselect is (yet) but I am brand new to this. Thank you for replying and the cmmd D - very helpful!
Hi SzaraVytra! Good question. I'm not sure your exact scenario, but one thing you could try is inverting the vector by doing a boolean subtract from a large rectangle. Then you could try to use that "negative" vector as your mask. Hope this helps!
Hi @BettyMullins, thanks for the question! You can copy-and-paste a mask from Affinity Photo and use it in Affinity Designer. However, I don't know of a way to convert an Affinity Photo mask to a vector shape. The masks in Affinity Photo are raster-based (in other words, grids of pixels). Affinity does not have any way of converting raster images to vectors. You could try using some 3rd party app to convert your mask image to a vector, and then import it into Affinity Designer. Creative Fabrica has a free image-to-vector tool you could try, although I haven't used it for this purpose before: www.creativefabrica.com/studio/features/vectorize-image/ref/2746202/ Hope this helps! - Trent
I made it to your apples and stopped. No matter what type of image I upload in AD2, it loads as a locked pixel background. I looked at the settings but didn't recognize anything that would help me. Do you know what I need to do to have my pics load as unlocked images? Thanks.
Hi @ArtsyLadyCrafter! To unlock a layer, you can select that layer and then click the Lock button that is at the top-right of the Layers panel. Let me know if that works.
@@TechnicallyTrent Yes, I know how to unlock but why are all of my images loading as "pixel backgrounds"? You have an apples photo that loads as an image. I tried to load different images so that one would show like yours, as an "image" rather than a "pixel background". What is wrong with my settings that this is happening?
@@ArtsyLadyCrafter It will depend on how you bring in the image. If you do File -> Place into your current document, it will be an image layer. It also happens if you copy-and-paste an image from the web into your document. If you'd like to convert the Image to a Pixel layer, you can right-click on it and choose Rasterize. I recommend making sure your Image is at size when 100% when doing that. I explain more about Image vs Pixel layers in this video: ruclips.net/video/nnWYKxkamJ8/видео.html Hope it helps! Trent
@@TechnicallyTrent Got it! I was just opening the images, which created a pixel background. When I created a blank document (as you said) and placed the image in it, it loaded as an image. I'm glad I asked. Thanks so much!
I wish this worked for me. I do exactly what you say, but instead of the background disappearing, the actual image vanishes, or nothing happens at all! Driving me crazy.
Hi @user-zg8nm5nu6s, thanks for the question! I'm assuming you are in the Pixel Persona of Affinity Designer. It sounds like you may be selecting the area *around* you object instead of the object itself. While the selections may look the same, they are actually different. If you have an image of an apple and you want to keep the apple and remove everything else, be sure the use the selection brush to select the area ON the apple. If you selected the opposite area, you can invert it with the menu option Select -> Invert Pixel Selection. If nothing is happening when you mask, you may have another level selected in the layer stack. Make sure you are on the layer of the object you want to mask. Hope this helps! Trent
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Short and clear. Nothing extra. I went to repeat. Thank you. 😍🎨👍
Thanks!
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Thank you for explaining this so succinctly. A lot of tutorials skip essential steps that you expect in a tutorial which is pretty useless.
Thanks!🥇
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great, thanks i was looking for an explanation to understand the differences when you move a layer over another
Wow. That was a perfect tutorial. Thanks!
Vey helpful. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Great tutorial on masks! Thank you.
Thanks well explained, look forward to more like this.
as an illustrotor user, for those looking for multiple vector objects as a mask, you need a group, at that point you can put as many vectors as you need in it, plus, keep in mind that affinity works with opacity as a factor of transparency (not black & white as it is in Illustrator). This is my second attempt to move on to afinity, but damn...i miss some basic stuff! like, now i'm trying to figure out if there's any spacing options beetween the objects..or if can move the artboard without moving the objects... I find the interface of Affinity really childish, which upset me a bit as i feel i'm using some app for my kids - and i really miss the collapsed panels, don't understand why it's not possible in designer. I know i can hide the UI, but i really got so much used to it in ai..hope i can cope with that as my new job requires me to use affinity + macintosh, and gues what? i'm on windows since 1994 and using adobe since 2002..argh.
Thanks so much for this, very clear to me now. OFF to practice 💋
Thanks @KithandKinn-um3ji, I hope the practice goes well!
@@TechnicallyTrent thanks🐒
Thanks for the extra curricular tutorial on this subject, Trent...
wow it's like you heard me, i was , literally just saying to my husband i need to find a video on mask s in affinity Designer and then this video popped up.
Ha, glad it appeared when you needed it :)
what i'm looking for is an option to invert the pixel mask (black turned to white, white turned to black) but i can't find such an option. can you help? thanks in advance 🙏
Hi @Core2TOM, thanks for the question! Unfortunately, I do not think there is a way in Affinity Designer to do that. In Affinity Photo, it is quite easy but for some reason that option is missing in Affinity Designer.
@@TechnicallyTrent we can open .afdesign files in Affinity Photo, so that's no problem 🙂 thanks alot. I'll have a look when i'm home
How to get the "marching ants" to stop after making selection in pixel persona and trying to move forward in project?? Thanks
Hi @GarrettBM...do you mean that you are done with the selection? You can clear the selection by pressing CTRL-D or choosing the menu option Select -> Deselect. Hope this helps!
Hi @@TechnicallyTrent , yes, I was following along with the tutorial, doing it step by step with you, and I got stuck with the marching nats and clicked all kinds of different things.... your command D worked for me (on apple). I do not know where the Select deselect is (yet) but I am brand new to this. Thank you for replying and the cmmd D - very helpful!
What about inverting vector mask? I stumbled upon some workarounds on a Serif forum, but afaik there is no clear way how to do this.
Hi SzaraVytra!
Good question. I'm not sure your exact scenario, but one thing you could try is inverting the vector by doing a boolean subtract from a large rectangle. Then you could try to use that "negative" vector as your mask. Hope this helps!
Can you take a mask that was made in affinity photo and make new mask in affinity designer and make a shape with it
Hi @BettyMullins, thanks for the question!
You can copy-and-paste a mask from Affinity Photo and use it in Affinity Designer. However, I don't know of a way to convert an Affinity Photo mask to a vector shape. The masks in Affinity Photo are raster-based (in other words, grids of pixels). Affinity does not have any way of converting raster images to vectors. You could try using some 3rd party app to convert your mask image to a vector, and then import it into Affinity Designer. Creative Fabrica has a free image-to-vector tool you could try, although I haven't used it for this purpose before:
www.creativefabrica.com/studio/features/vectorize-image/ref/2746202/
Hope this helps! - Trent
@@TechnicallyTrent thank you.
I made it to your apples and stopped. No matter what type of image I upload in AD2, it loads as a locked pixel background. I looked at the settings but didn't recognize anything that would help me. Do you know what I need to do to have my pics load as unlocked images? Thanks.
Hi @ArtsyLadyCrafter! To unlock a layer, you can select that layer and then click the Lock button that is at the top-right of the Layers panel. Let me know if that works.
@@TechnicallyTrent Yes, I know how to unlock but why are all of my images loading as "pixel backgrounds"? You have an apples photo that loads as an image. I tried to load different images so that one would show like yours, as an "image" rather than a "pixel background". What is wrong with my settings that this is happening?
@@ArtsyLadyCrafter It will depend on how you bring in the image.
If you do File -> Place into your current document, it will be an image layer. It also happens if you copy-and-paste an image from the web into your document.
If you'd like to convert the Image to a Pixel layer, you can right-click on it and choose Rasterize. I recommend making sure your Image is at size when 100% when doing that. I explain more about Image vs Pixel layers in this video:
ruclips.net/video/nnWYKxkamJ8/видео.html
Hope it helps!
Trent
@@TechnicallyTrent Got it! I was just opening the images, which created a pixel background. When I created a blank document (as you said) and placed the image in it, it loaded as an image. I'm glad I asked. Thanks so much!
I wish this worked for me. I do exactly what you say, but instead of the background disappearing, the actual image vanishes, or nothing happens at all! Driving me crazy.
Hi @user-zg8nm5nu6s, thanks for the question!
I'm assuming you are in the Pixel Persona of Affinity Designer.
It sounds like you may be selecting the area *around* you object instead of the object itself. While the selections may look the same, they are actually different. If you have an image of an apple and you want to keep the apple and remove everything else, be sure the use the selection brush to select the area ON the apple.
If you selected the opposite area, you can invert it with the menu option Select -> Invert Pixel Selection.
If nothing is happening when you mask, you may have another level selected in the layer stack. Make sure you are on the layer of the object you want to mask.
Hope this helps!
Trent