Where is the “Lock Children” mask function on the iPad version of Affinity Photo

[thomasbricker]

 

I’ve spent two hours trying to find this function on the iPad version of a Affinity Photo.

Where the heck is it?

[DM1]

Hi Thomasbricker, No single button in iOS ui. Each layer has a lock symbol. (You do need show unlocked layers on in Layer studio). 
 

When you mask or clip layers you can activate the lock by tapping on symbol in layer or in the Layer studio menu tap lock.

In iPad version you don’t need to lock child layer to lock the mask, just create mask and then clip you image (eg sky) under mask layer. Adjusting lower image layer has no effect on mask above.

[azek99]

@DM1 I see the use of “children look” function for mask layers as “only lock the mask” move the images as you like. Is that possible in Affinity Photo iPad? 
The workaround is to move the mask layer “outside” and then move the image, then move the mask layer back. 

[MEB]

Hi @thomasbricker, @azek99,
The Lock Children toggle is located in the Transform Studio (first toggle). Tap the "?" icon for a few seconds on the bottom right of the interface to help locate the Transform Studio. After enabling it you should be able to move the parent layer without affecting its children's position.

[azek99]

10 minutes ago, MEB said:

Hi @thomasbricker, @azek99,
The Lock Children toggle is located in the Transform Studio (first toggle). Tap the "?" icon for a few seconds on the bottom right of the interface to help locate the Transform Studio. After enabling it you should be able to move the parent layer without affecting its children's position.

Thx a million! 

[MEB]

You're welcome 🙂

[Ulysses]

On 11/10/2020 at 10:49 AM, MEB said:

Hi @thomasbricker, @azek99,
The Lock Children toggle is located in the Transform Studio (first toggle). Tap the "?" icon for a few seconds on the bottom right of the interface to help locate the Transform Studio. After enabling it you should be able to move the parent layer without affecting its children's position.

Brilliant! And thank you, @MEB. 

But I have to ask: What was the logic behind placing this feature there in the Transform Studio? 

I realize a number of things in the iPad interface are necessarily different than in the desktop version, but this one seems quite unusual. Even as an experienced user, it would have take me quite some time to stumble upon it there.  

 

[Jowday]

1 minute ago, Ulysses said:

But I have to ask: What was the logic behind placing this feature there in the Transform Studio? 

No educated, professional user experience designer involved; no logic.

[Ulysses]

Just now, Jowday said:

No educated, professional user experience designer involved; no logic.

That’s probably uncalled for.  

I’m not asking to be mean or to chide the developers at all. I’m sincerely interested in design and simply wondered about some of the factors involved in the decision.

[Jowday]

4 minutes ago, Ulysses said:

That’s probably uncalled for.  

I’m not asking to be mean or to chide the developers at all. I’m sincerely interested in design and simply wondered about some of the factors involved in the decision.

I don't think is it. 🙂

They key point is who makes the decisions. And it is not user experience designers. It is engineers. And it shows. There are tons of these usability issues in all Affinity Apps - Photo especially. 

So what you get is a user interface like the days before UI specialists got involved. 1998. So the insult could be not involving such specialists.

There are TONS of threads about usability in this forum.

[Jowday]