Affinity Photo - Confused With The Terms Black Mask, White Mask, Adjustments Studio

[Mainecoon364]

 

I’m confused.

 

1) When you add a Adjustment Studio to the image then It means you add “White Mask” to your image. Right?

 

2) When you invert (layer) a “White Mask” then It becomes a “Black Mask”. Right?

 

3) “Black Mask” (Inverted White Mask Layer) hides the colors of the applied filter (Adjustment Studio) Right?

 

4) When you apply White Colored Brush to Black Mask It unveils the actual colors of the filter (Adjustment Studio) where It applied. Right?

 

5) When you apply Black Colored Brush to White Mask (Default Adjustment Studio) (Default Filter) It unveils the actual colors of the image below it where It is applied. Right?

 

 

[Callum]

Hi Mainecoon364,

This isn't correct, the best way to see how this behaviour works is to open a sample image and then apply a black and white adjustment to it to remove all the colour. Now when you invert the adjustment layer you can clearly see the colours disappearing and re-appearing. When the mask is black and you paint on it with a White brush you are painting the adjustment back into the image which will remove colour. If the mask is white and you begin to paint over it with black you will be painting the mask out of the image which will make the original colours visible.

Thanks
C

[Mainecoon364]

Which one is incorrect?

 

May you answer the questions consecutively please? I don’t understand.

[NotMyFault]

4 hours ago, Mainecoon364 said:

 

1) When you add a Adjustment Studio to the image then It means you add “White Mask” to your image. Right?

Yes

 

2) When you invert (layer) a “White Mask” then It becomes a “Black Mask”. Right?

yes - but the inverting needs to be applied to the mask. Check that you invert the correct layer (not the parent pixel layer)

 

3) “Black Mask” (Inverted White Mask Layer) hides the colors of the applied filter (Adjustment Studio) Right?

yes. It hides the effect of the adjustment or filter layer.

 

4) When you apply White Colored Brush to Black Mask It unveils the actual colors of the filter (Adjustment Studio) where It applied. Right?

yes in principle, but you are using a combination of terms which is confusing. Filter layers and adjustment layers are quite different, but both have an inherent mask. Some adjustment layers have default settings of their input parameters which show an immediate effect, whereas almost all filters show no filter effect unless you move the input sliders out of the default positions. So inverting a mask may have no effect.

 

5) When you apply Black Colored Brush to White Mask (Default Adjustment Studio) (Default Filter) It unveils the actual colors of the image below it where It is applied. Right?

You are combining many things in one sentence, this could lead to confusion and false interpretation of the question and possible answers.

There is nothing like a „default filter“. When you add a filter layer, it has some „default settings“, which often are strength zero, and do not show any filter effect at all (unrelated to any mask).

 

[Affinity iPad Student]

@NotMyFault explained it thoroughly. 

I’ll add some simpleness here. 

when you first apply a mask, it’s “not” inverted, it’s just a regular mask.
 

Inverting a mask is a different subject, look that up on its own, so you can understand that concept, because right now you *mashing up two separate concepts*.
 

Regarding a regular mask…. there’s a simple phrase used by many pro’s that helps you remember how basic masking works:

 

Black *conceals*
White *reveals*  

[Mainecoon364]

Understood. Thank you very much all for the detailed answers.