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Pasting an image into a quick mask, is a very quick way to generate a complex selection in Photoshop.

This doesn't seem to work in Affinity. Why not?

What is the current workaround?

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Rather than trying to use the quick mask you could go to the channels panel and choose a channel then right click and load it into the selection section.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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12 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Rather than trying to use the quick mask you could go to the channels panel and choose a channel then right click and load it into the selection section.

Ok, so that's a workaround, but it's not quick.

Anyone have a quicker option? :)

 

(I'm talking Q, Ctrl-V, Q kind of quick...)

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On 2/5/2020 at 11:35 AM, DWright said:

If you make a mask layer from your selection you can then place your photo and move the mask layer as a child of the photo 

How do I do that? I only see "mask to below" and that produces a weird result:

 

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Top sublayer with the crop symbol in it is "mask to below", and bottom layer with the grey blob symbol in it is an imported photoshop mask.

 

I'm still struggling with this. It's nowhere near as easy or quick as in Photoshop. :(

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Select the part of the image you want to use as mask, a do a copy (ctr+j).

Righ click on this layer and choose: Rasterize to mask. Depending of the result you want, you'll invert the selection and invert the colour if needed (ctrl+i).

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On 2/4/2020 at 6:33 PM, eobet said:

Pasting an image into a quick mask, is a very quick way to generate a complex selection in Photoshop.

This doesn't seem to work in Affinity. Why not?

What is the current workaround?

On macOS, opt+cmd click an object's thumbnail to generate a selection from its luminosity. I guess that will be alt-ctrl click for Windows.

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