how about adjusting mask and clip mask layer individually in photo?

[Mitsunoryw]

I saw in current version of photo, if you create a mask for any layer, you got it something like a child layer of the original one. (Correct me if I understood it wrongly) That’s totally fine if you just wanted to modify the mask itself over the original base layer, cuz doing anything to the child won’t affect its parent. But if you ever tried to move, scale or do any transform to the original layer, which, I referred to the layer to be masked, also appeared to be the parent of the mask layer, the child—mask layer would also be affected.
This could cause big trouble when individual modifying is needed. Try to imagine this case: I wanted to make a reflection effect of my window in an illustration , so I left the window layer along as the mask, and duplicated the background as the reflection to be masked under the window. I need to preview the final effect real time when moving the reflection layer to adjust its position and scale the same time leaving the window mask itself still, which is in current logic not possible.

as illustrator, I do really need this feature like in other apps, thank you!

[NotMyFault]

Hi and welcome to the forum. 

Your post look more like a question, and not a feedback (mainly feature requests).

I'm not sure if I fully understand your request, but I'm almost sure that Affinity Photo provides that functionality.

• You can use masks as separate layers, or use the inherent alpha channel of a layer
• In case of nested layers, you can choose if transformations affect all (nested) layers, or they keep their size etc (when using the move tool)
• Almost all adjustments, filters and transformation will render live.

Can you provide an example file? I don't get "which is in current logic not possible." masks can stay unchanged (activate "lock children" when using move tool).

1 hour ago, Mitsunoryw said:

I need to preview the final effect real time when moving the reflection layer to adjust its position and scale the same time leaving the window mask itself still, which is in current logic not possible.

 

[Mitsunoryw]

On 12/20/2022 at 12:01 AM, NotMyFault said:

Hi and welcome to the forum. 

Your post look more like a question, and not a feedback (mainly feature requests).

I'm not sure if I fully understand your request, but I'm almost sure that Affinity Photo provides that functionality.

• You can use masks as separate layers, or use the inherent alpha channel of a layer
• In case of nested layers, you can choose if transformations affect all (nested) layers, or they keep their size etc (when using the move tool)
• Almost all adjustments, filters and transformation will render live.

Can you provide an example file? I don't get "which is in current logic not possible." masks can stay unchanged (activate "lock children" when using move tool).

 

You are right, I missed the “lock children” option.

‘sorry for the mistake, and thank you for solving my problem!