Using Affinity Photo desktop on Windows. I'm trying to wrap my head around using nested adjustments, particularly with masks. I understand that currently there needs to be a slight workaround to get adjustments to nest -- the "inner" adjustment needs to be made a child, before the "outer" adjustment gets placed as a child. I'm still not really getting the results I want though.
Yes I know reading this is really confusing, unless you already sort of know what I'm talking about. I'm including a sample image, as well as attaching an image.
Lets say I want to add an HSL adjustment to my main image. This is my "outer" adjustment.
I want to add a mask to that HSL adjustment, so I do that.
I also want to add a Levels adjustment to the mask, so that I can control some of the brightness / darkness of the mask without necessarily having to remake the mask. This is my "inner" adjustment.
I've figure out that the order of operations is that you need to add the Levels adjustment as a child to a mask, and then apply the mask to the HSL layer. What is not working for me is that even though I can get them nested, I'm not sure I'm doing it correctly, as the Levels layer doesn't seem to actually be doing anything to my Mask.
deer nesting demo.afphoto
Edit: I just realized I was in the wrong forum if a mod could please move this to support, sorry!