Mask not opaque

[RoywithaT]

@loukash, perhaps I was too polite in my reply to you, so I will try one more time...this thread is about the technical reason for the masking process to not work.  It is inappropriate, and I find it personally offensive, for you to bring in your opinion about my education (or lack of it).   Please stop and stay on topic.

[firstdefence]

On 6/1/2021 at 11:33 PM, RoywithaT said:

firstdefense, lol, fair enough.  Project for a long-term client www.lifeisgrruff.com . Their main logo mascot is a drawing by the owner’s sister-the challenge for me was to create designs that stay somewhat true to her original drawing.  I have done about a dozen t-shirt designs for them over the years.  This set of projects is labels for subscription boxes.

Nice to have a back story to the project, helps to gauge replies and pitch skill levels, although I generally try to reply with all readers skill sets in mind as posts can hang around for quite a while as reference posts to help others with similar issues.

Like you say, we all have different ways of working and there are always several ways of getting a similar result.

[iconoclast]

Not sure if the problem is solved now, because I only glanced through the thread, but the reason for this problem could possibly also be the Accumulation setting of the brush. If you doubleclick on the brush-preset to open the settings, the Accumulation-slider should be set to 100%.

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, RoywithaT said:

@walt.farrell, on the color wheel, the HSL sliders were all at 0 with 100% opacity (you can see this in the first screen shot I posted).  I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the results of using this color on a mask to be complete coverage.  Having to dive over to cmyk setting to check the k seems like an overly fussy step. But I dunno, haven’t heard from anyone at Affinity on this thread (not that you-all aren’t awesome ;-).

I would like to see a comment from Serif, too. Someone should be along at some point

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[RoywithaT]

@walt.farrell thank you!  Very helpful!

[RoywithaT]

@iconoclast thanks for thought.  I was using pen brush, so yes, 100% accumulation.  Setting K to 100% in the color panel was the solution. Still dk why K wouldn’t be 100% when the basic black swatch was selected, but, whatevers…it’s all working. Thank you again for the assist.

[RoywithaT]

@firstdefence agreed.  I often find someone’s past question resolves my questions. Thank you again for your help!

[walt.farrell]

18 hours ago, RoywithaT said:

Still dk why K wouldn’t be 100% when the basic black swatch was selected,

I'm not certain what you mean by "the basic black swatch". I know of two possibilities:

#1 is an RGB black swatch which will be a Rich Black when used in a CMYK document.

#2 is a CMYK black swatch, with C=M=Y at 0, and Black at 100.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

#2 is a CMYK black swatch, with C=M=Y at 0, and Black at 100.

I think there should be some indication of that, perhaps with a tooltip popup, right there in the UI, because as it is it is far from obvious.