Mask in Layers Panel

[Fritz_H]

Hi,

I was playing around with Photo (on Windows) recently - trying to find out how to merge two Mask-Layers - seems to be a crazy complicated task...

While doing that I noticed that a Layer-Mask is not always shown at the same position in the Layers Panel (notice the indenting of the Mask-Layer)
Why?                      

        

Thanks.

kind regards
Fritz

 

[walt.farrell]

One of those is the mask position; one is a clipping position. If you're dragging layers under another layer you need to be careful where you position them to get the effect that you want.

This Serif tutorial about clipping vs masking might be informative for you: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/video/318402519

[Fritz_H]

@walt.farrell

Thanks,
I will check the video again and play around some more with Photo but I don´t think that solution is intuitive...
Esp. since there is no visual difference if the nested Layer is just a selection.

kind regards
Fritz

[R C-R]

43 minutes ago, Fritz_H said:

Esp. since there is no visual difference if the nested Layer is just a selection.

Could you explain more about what you mean by that? If you mean 'marching ants' selections, they are not part of any layer. If you mean a layer selected (highlighted) in the Layers panel, then the highlight provides the visual difference. If you mean something else, can you provide a screenshot or a more detailed description of what it is?