Chris in NZ Posted March 30, 2021 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted March 31, 2021 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in NZ Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in NZ Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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