George Moulos
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George Moulos reacted to lepr in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
Unless an export format supports Erase blend mode, using Erase will result in rasterisation of everything that is having its opacity reduced by the erasing object. PDF certainly doesn't support Erase.
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George Moulos reacted to GarryP in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
As I said above, if you use a Blend Mode that is anything other than Normal the Erase Blend Mode, that layer and (possibly) its parent layers will be rasterised, every time, upon export to any file format.
There’s no way of getting round this, it’s just what the software does for what I assume are various technical reasons.
Whether that will be a problem for your output, only you can say.
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George Moulos reacted to lepr in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
I'm on George's ignore list, apparently
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George Moulos reacted to GarryP in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
You’re welcome.
It’s also worth noting that the black pixel ‘masking’ layer is still editable, like any other pixel layer, so that tweaks can be made at any time if the result isn’t exactly what is needed.
It’s also also worth noting that, as lepr said above, by doing it this way, the text will always be rasterised upon export, to any file format.
You can create the ‘masking’ layer using vector tools instead, as you have seen, but, because the technique uses a Blend Mode which isn’t Normal the Erase Blend Mode, rasterisation will still occur.
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George Moulos reacted to GarryP in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
George Moulos: Is the thing I show in my attached video (basically) what you want to do?
It is essentially a demonstration of some of what lepr said in the above post but with more details of the steps required.
Note: When you are moving the text, make sure that Lock Children is ON so that the black pixel ‘masking’ layer stay where it is in relation to the background rather than moving with the 'parent' text.
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George Moulos reacted to Brian_J in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
@George Moulos In your original post, the Curve layer (donut shape) is clipped to the Text layer. Clipping produces the result that you got — the donut Curve layer is only visible in the area of the text.
A Layer Mask is different than clipping. To add a vector mask, in the Layers panel, drag the mask shape onto the thumbnail of the target layer.
Layer masking
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html
Layer clipping
https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/layerClip.html
A Layer Mask will produce results opposite of what you want to achieve — the text layer will only be visible in the donut shape. One option is to create a pixel selection of the donut vector shape and create a pixel mask on the text layer to hide it.
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George Moulos reacted to Oidyuk in Layer Masking/Clipping Not Working?
Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to do , but can you not just place the text below the image in the layer stack ?
