Inverting fill layer => transparent

[dmstraker]

Inverting a fill layer seems to make it transparent. I thought the fill colour would invert.

[Chris B]

Hi Dave,

That has surprised me a bit too. I'll get it checked out as I'm not sure if this is right. Happens on both Windows and macOS. Cheers  

[Wosven]

A fill layer behave like a mask for colour. If you paint on it in white or black, it'll show or mask the colour.

An invert will only convert this "white mask" to black, that's why you don't have any colour on it.

It's different of a pixel layer. Rasterize it if you want to invert the colour.

[dmstraker]

7 hours ago, Wosven said:

A fill layer behave like a mask for colour. If you paint on it in white or black, it'll show or mask the colour.

An invert will only convert this "white mask" to black, that's why you don't have any colour on it.

It's different of a pixel layer. Rasterize it if you want to invert the colour.

Might this be something for the Assistant to do? It does rasterise other layers.

[Wosven]

Don't let the assistant corrupt your file, you'll search things that don't exist anymore later!

But you can use an invert adjustement, and if you put it above (not clipped or inside) the fill layer — you can group them too —, you'll have the inverted colour.

[Chris B]

This was closed as by design with the following comment:

'Inverting it inverts the pixels - the pixels are the mask in Fill layers.'

[dmstraker]

OK, I've got it. No assistant stuff. Useful for such as invert fill layer and paint white to put it back. For example blue fill layer, blend colour burn, invert, paint back 10% opacity over sky to extent blue through clouds.

Thanks for the patience and insight!