Layer Mask/Clipping

[Kentucco]

Is there a way to do what I believe is called layer "Masking" in Photoshop or "Clipping" in OpenCanvas?

To better explain: You have a drawing on one layer but want to make a secondary layer with another so you don't mess up the original.

Example:
Oval 1 (Purple) is on one layer and Oval 2 (Green) is overlapping it on the second layer above it.

Now, I want to mask/clip the second layer so it stays within the borders of the drawing on Layer 1. This is the expected result:

This is what happens in Affinity when I 'mask' the second layer:

[Murfee]

Hi @Kentucco, welcome to the forums. To get the result you need, drag the green oval to the right of the thumbnail of your purple oval, if you pause slightly you will see the result, then let go 

[GarryP]

To give a bit more demonstration as to what Murfee said above, I’ve attached a short video.
Note that:
* when you drag the green circle over the thumbnail of the blue circle you make the green circle a Vector Cropping Mask over the blue circle (the thumbnail of the green circle will contain a crop symbol);
* when you drag the green circle to the right of the thumbnail of the blue circle (over the layer name) you Clip the green circle inside the blue circle (blue circle becomes the boundaries of the green circle).
The blue rectangle in the Layers Panel changes to show you what will happen – short vertical = Mask, long horizontal = Clip.

[Kentucco]

This is exactly what I needed, thank you Murfee, GarryP!

[Pšenda]

16 hours ago, Kentucco said:

"Clipping"

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Layers/layerClip.html