Has creating luminosity masks changed with 1.8?

[drippy cat]

Hi,

I don't know if the keyboard command have changed or if this is a bug so I'll post here.

There is a technique for creating luminosity masks where you, for example...

1. Create a Lens filter layer above a layer containing a photo.

2. With the adjustment layer selected, on a PC hold down ctrl + shift / Mac cmd + shift, then left click on the thumbnail of the layer below. You should end up with a selection of the layer below, something like the screenshot below:

But instead of this, nothing gets selected and I can't go on to create a layer mask based off the selection. I've tried this on both the 1.83 PC and Mac versions of Affinity Photo. Some help would be most appreciated.

Simon

[MEB]

Hi Simon,
It's now cmd+ alt. There was a few changes here: cmd selects the whole content of the layer; cmd+shift adds the contents of additional layers you click to the existing selection; cmd+alt performs a luminosity selection (these shortcuts on macOS).

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, MEB said:

Hi Simon,
It's now cmd+ alt. There was a few changes here: cmd selects the whole content of the layer; cmd+shift adds the contents of additional layers you click to the existing selection; cmd+alt performs a luminosity selection (these shortcuts on macOS).

It would be helpful if the 'new features in this version' help topic included changes like this.

[walt.farrell]

36 minutes ago, R C-R said:

It would be helpful if the 'new features in this version' help topic included changes like this.

As well as changes like requiring Windows Ink, and then changing to make that optional

[drippy cat]

Ah! Thanks for letting me know.

Simon