Chris in NZ Posted March 30, 2021 Posted March 30, 2021 Hi all In Photo I quite often create a mask by using the pen tool and clicking on the Mask button in the toolbar but something has gone wrong - every time I do this now, instead of giving me a mask layer like I was expecting, it gives me some other sort of layer. It says 'Curve' by it and it looks like a mask but it doesn't work like a mask, I can't paint onto it to reveal etc. I have no clue what is going on, please help!!! This has broken. my workflow completely and I don't know what I've done - or is it the 1.9.1 upgrade that's broken it? Thanks! Quote
v_kyr Posted March 31, 2021 Posted March 31, 2021 The pen tool is a vector tool and what you got there shown above is a vector cropping mask, thus (Curve). Switch to the arrow selection tool and apply a mask the usual way as a pixel mask (Pixel) then! - See also here this thread (top to bottom) for mask types etc. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Chris in NZ Posted March 31, 2021 Author Posted March 31, 2021 49 minutes ago, v_kyr said: The pen tool is a vector tool and what you got there shown above is a vector cropping mask, thus (Curve). Switch to the arrow selection tool and apply a mask the usual way as a pixel mask (Pixel) then! - See also here this thread (top to bottom) for mask types etc. If I switch to the arrow selection tool the Mask / Selection buttons disappear. This is really annoying!! OK thanks for your help Quote
Chris in NZ Posted March 31, 2021 Author Posted March 31, 2021 58 minutes ago, v_kyr said: The pen tool is a vector tool and what you got there shown above is a vector cropping mask, thus (Curve). Switch to the arrow selection tool and apply a mask the usual way as a pixel mask (Pixel) then! - See also here this thread (top to bottom) for mask types etc. OK so thinking about it more, I feel pretty stupid now. I have been away from work for a couple of weeks holiday and got my own workflow confused when I got back. Oops. Thanks 🙂 Quote
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