LLamo

Hello everyone! I'm a fairly novice user, switching from Illustrator to Affinity and trying to make a simple mask using the pen tool to create the outline of a character within a larger image (.jpeg). I have watched every tutorial on making masks in this program and it is just not working. When I pull the icon of theshape layer over the icon of the image (in the Layers panel) per the instructions, the whole image disappears. I have tried masking with a simple vector shape as well, just to see if the pen tool outline was the problem. I have tried it with the image rasterized and unrasterized, even converted it to a .png to see if that made a difference. This was SO SIMPLE in Illustrator and I have been pulling my hair out for hours now trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I am operating with the 1.10.1 version. Any advice is welcomed!! Thank you! Liz

Hello everyone! I'm a fairly novice user, switching from Illustrator to Affinity and trying to make a simple mask using the pen tool to create the outline of a character within a larger image (.jpeg). I have watched every tutorial on making masks in this program and it is just not working. When I pull the icon of theshape layer over the icon of the image (in the Layers panel) per the instructions, the whole image disappears. I have tried masking with a simple vector shape as well, just to see if the pen tool outline was the problem. I have tried it with the image rasterized and unrasterized, even converted it to a .png to see if that made a difference. This was SO SIMPLE in Illustrator and I have been pulling my hair out for hours now trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I am operating with the 1.10.1 version. Any advice is welcomed!! Thank you! Liz