Create Mask from jpeg file

[rudyp16]

Can someone walk me through taking this photo and creating a mask from it, please. I'm so confused. Basically,  want to create masks from various black and white images.

Mask2 is the desired effect.

 

[rudyp16]

I want to invert the image changing white to black and black to white

[HVDB Photography]

5 minutes ago, rudyp16 said:

I want to invert the image changing white to black and black to white

 

Go to Layer > Invert

 

[rudyp16]

I've created a layer mask and mask using the shapes however, that was not my question. Can you take that B&W jpeg and make it a mask ?? If so, how?? Thanks again

[HVDB Photography]

Invert that B&W layer
Right click on it and select Rasterise to Mask
To make it a clipping mask :
   - drag it over the image layer thumbnail until you see a small vertical bleu bar, and release
   - or right click and select Mask to below

[rudyp16]

I'm definitely not getting it. It looks so simple. I open my picture and see it as a layer in the layers panel. I then open my b&w photo and it replaces my photo in the layers panel??? So weird.

I already inverted the image and saved it as a jpeg.I don't see the photo at all. It was replaced by the B&W photo. It should have shown what you have, the tiger and the mask unter it. Confused.

[Fixx]

Place the mask image to tiger image and set the layers set up as presented above.

[HVDB Photography]

Here's a short video

 

[HVDB Photography]

@rudyp16

Did you finally succeed?

[R C-R]

On 10/21/2019 at 9:34 PM, rudyp16 said:

I open my picture and see it as a layer in the layers panel. I then open my b&w photo and it replaces my photo in the layers panel??? So weird.

It does not replace anything. When you do as above, you have two documents open, each with its own Layers panel. So like in the video you can copy the b&w layer in its document window or tab & paste it into the document where you want to use it as a mask.

You can copy any selected layer or layers (including Group, Adjustment, & Live Filter layers) in any open Affinity document & paste that into any other open Affinity document, including into a different Affinity app if you own more than one of them. In fact, people that own only Designer can download Affinity Photo files (.afphoto documents) from the forum that include layers that only Photo can create, open them in Designer, & copy those layers into their own Affinity Designer (.afdesign) documents.

Once you understand how to use it, you should see that it is a very useful feature with many different applications.