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Hi. New to Affinity Photo. I've watched 2 tutorials on applying basic masks. Unlike in tutorials, clicking on the add mask icon adds a mask above the target layer (not a child of, below). I've tried moving it, but I can not get it to work at all. I used to do a lot of masking in Photoshop, so I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong here in Affinity. I've looked to reset settings to their default without success. This should be pretty basic, so if someone could give me a nudge in the proper direction I'd be very appreciative. My version of Affinity Photo is 1.8.2 and I'm working on Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6. Thank you kindly in advance.

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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

From the menu, View > Assistant Manager... and then check what setting you have for adding a mask (see below):

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-- Walt
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Posted

Excellent. I had to Enable the assistant and that seems to have fixed the issue! Genius! Thank you so very much for your help!

 

 

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You're welcome.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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