Mr Keith Williams

[Keith Williams]

When editing a photograph and using the adjustment layers to select Black and White and then to use a Mask to bring back some section colours when using the "Inpainting Brush" to carry out  this function,  immediately I have finished a box with a slider appears in the photograph titled "Inpainting Brush" and the slider then moves to remove the work I have done and the photograph returns to the complete Black and White photograph,  I  have tried a number of  variations without success. This appear to be indicative of a bug in my copy of the software?

I would be very appreciative of any help received and thank you in anticipation of your help.   Keith.

[markw]

Hello Keith and welcome to the Affinity forums 🙂
I’m not sure I’m entirely following your workflow there…?
The Inpainting brush is a type of clone tool and gathers information as to what to replicate and lay down from the pixels surrounding a stroke made by it.
To paint on a Mask you need the Paint Brush tool and use either Black or White to hide or reveal the underlying image.
But it’s worth noting here that Live Adjustments and Filter layers contain their own masks and you can paint directly on the these layers  with black or white to mask/unmask areas without the need to add a Mask layer to them.

[Keith Williams]

Hi MarkW, very many thanks for your reply and comments, I am new to  Affinity and got a bit lost but have now sorted my issue out and I am well on my way. Once again very many thanks for taking the time to respond.   Keith.

[John Rostron]

Hello @Keith Williams, and welcome to the forums.

I would concur with @markw here. The inpainting brush does not seem appropriate in this context.

Could I suggest that you change the Title of your thread from your name to something more meaningful such as "Inpainting Brush on Mask on Adjustment Layer". You are much more likely to attract helpful answers if you do this. You are one of many new users who have been confused by what Title means here.

John