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Blend mode "passthrough" for master pages


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Hi Affinity Team,

I would like to use master pages to apply some sort of uniform layer adjustment on multiple pages of the document (e.g. recolour adjustment so that all pages have the same colour).

So I want to create a master page only containing the layer adjustment layer (e.g. a single recolour adjustment). But when I apply the master to a page, the page content is not modified by the master page. It would be great if the blend mode "pass through" would be available.

Thanks, Christian

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I'm not sure that's a problem with Passthrough specifically, Christian.

In my experience a Master Page that contains only an adjustment layer has no affect on document pages it is applied to, regardless of its blend mode.

You need to Group the adjustment layer, even with itself (select the adjustment layer, Layer > Group), before it will have any effect on the document page contents. Edit: Or, you could put it into a (Layer) layer on the Master Page.

Also, of course, you need to move the Master Page layer above the other layers on the document page :)

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There is a related bug report, by the way:

 

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Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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  • 3 years later...
On 4/14/2020 at 12:48 PM, walt.farrell said:

You need to Group the adjustment layer, even with itself (select the adjustment layer, Layer > Group), before it will have any effect on the document page contents. Edit: Or, you could put it into a (Layer) layer on the Master Page.

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I was about to ask a similar question (I needed blend mode "darken"), but like many other questions it has already been answered by @walt.farrell. 😉

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