Are masks limited in the trial version

[pixfan]

Hi,

 

I just began trialing Affinity Photo and it looks really good. I am asking just to save time und to avoid looking for something that is not existent.

 

I watched the quick mask tutorial and I tried to recreate but it was not possible to paint the mask. The (red) quick mask can be turned on, but it is not possible to manipulate it with the paint brush tool. 

 

Then I tried to get an adjustment layer, but it does not appear in the layer list?

 

Are these limitations of the trial version and is there a list of limitations of the trial out there, just in order to know what to not look for in the trial version?

 

Regards

pixfan

[MEB]

Hi pixfan,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Other than the time limit, there's no other restrictions in the trial.

 

Regarding your questions:

 

1) Have you changed the colour of the Paint Brush to white? If it's set to black you're are subtracting from the selection. Since there's nothing selected you won't see any difference in the red overlay. So use white to add to selection and black to remove from it.

 

2) Click on the small arrow near the layer name to expand it (in the Layers panel). Depending on how you have Affinity Photo set the Adjustment layer may have been nested to the image layer.

[pixfan]

Thanks for the nice wellcome and Yes, great, it works.  :)  Thank you very much MEB!

 

There are further question arising. ^_^ One can turn the hardness of the area to 0. If this is still to hard, is there a way to go beyond?

 

Overall, there are two topics in which i am most interested. The use of masks and the selection of objects. Particularly the selection of specific grayscale levels and if possible band would be of high value for me. That means for instance the selection of high levels lets say from level 230 to 256, or a  band from 160-200. Is this possible? What´s the best way to exclude for instance all high parts from a process but with a soft selection?

 

Is there a comprehensive tutorial dealing with the use of masks and the selection of objects?

 

Regards

pixfan