Merging does not merge

[lepr]

1 minute ago, srg said:

Thank you both, I never knew. but at this point I have question, what is the practical difference between a mask layer and a clip layer. 

A parent object's appearance resulting from its clip-nested children is calculated before that appearance is further affected by mask-nested objects. Probably the most distinctive difference is when using live blur filters. A clip-nested blur will be constrained (in other words, clipped) by the boundary of the parent, but a mask-nested blur will spread the result outside of the parent's boundary.

[srg]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Some information sources that may help:

https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/LayerOperations/clipping.html

https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html

 

 

Thank you!

[walt.farrell]

And at about 3:30 into that tutorial, James points out both the thin row which I mentioned as differentiating the appearance of mask layers from clip layers, and the difference in background color that @,,, mentioned:

And a bit more detail later (about 4:45) on the appearance of the dropping highlights.

[srg]

1 minute ago, ,,, said:

A parent object's appearance resulting from its clip-nested children is calculated before that appearance is further affected by mask-nested objects. Probably the most distinctive difference is when using live blur filters. A clip-nested blur will be constrained (in other words, clipped) by the boundary of the parent, but a mask-nested blur will spread the result outside of the parent's boundary.

Thank you!