Adjusted mask behaviour

[Craig Ozancin]

I did a quick check on my Windows system. It looks great. It feels natural and intuitive.

Thanks for the work on this.

 

Craig

[debraspicher]

Yes, my advanced masks are there when I need them. Part of the reason I dropped Adobe was because of the amount of menu fishing (particularly Illustrator). Keeping the user closest to the canvas is best for UX and staying productive, imv. Still think we could benefit for a masking tool-related panel, but this is certainly a solution. If the options become too numerous, do consider that as a potential path in the future to keep Affinity's capabilities front and center.

[Frozen Death Knight]

Little improvements like these are often what make or break our workflows when having to repeatedly do them across multiple projects. I am glad that this release has been focusing on smoothing out the rougher edges so we can just work more efficiently. Really been enjoying working with 2.1 thanks to stuff like the added functionality to the Brushes and Layers panels.

Hope 2.1 will have the time to fix the dark mode UI for selecting stuff not being visible as well. Probably my biggest gripe after moving from V1 to V2.

[Frozen Death Knight]

Slightly related to the topic of menus and shortcuts. Just had the thought that this kind of menu could be added to the FX icon as well. R click to select which FX to activate and then open up the main panel would be a decent shortcut to access specific effects quickly. Reason why I bring this up is because of issues like these where the V2 Effects panel no longer defaults to Gaussian Blur, which causes a lack of efficiency for some users who rely on that effect often.

Having an R click menu would be a potential improvement for anyone who likes to use different effects instead of Gaussian Blur like in V1.

[jdvoracek]

I didn't see this thread until walt.f directed me. I liked the old action of clicking the menu icon to get the mask choices drop down list. However, opt-click is an okay solution, just hard to find until told about it.

[ATP]

On 5/19/2023 at 10:22 PM, jdvoracek said:

I didn't see this thread until walt.f directed me. I liked the old action of clicking the menu icon to get the mask choices drop down list. However, opt-click is an okay solution, just hard to find until told about it.

I think an option to right-click would be great, then we could get the older behavior with the menu too.

EDIT: This might be buggy, the first time I tried right-clicking it didn't pop-up the menu, it now does. I don't know if this was user error, a one off bug or if it required a restart to fix. Great to see it implemented.

[walt.farrell]

On 3/31/2023 at 5:34 AM, Chris B said:

Hi all, just to clarify, we are looking at making this true for Windows:

1. Left-Click adds Default Mask

2. Alt+Left-Click add Empty Mask

3. Right-Click shows extended Mask Menu

The issue with the strange highlight when holding down Ctrl and mousing over the mask options is a WPF issue that we cannot fix so this is a potential solution.

By the way, @Chris B, I don't think the Photo 2 Help was updated to describe this.

[Chris B]

12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

By the way, @Chris B, I don't think the Photo 2 Help was updated to describe this.

Thanks Walt. Will investigate. 

[Mike Leski]

On 7/21/2023 at 8:21 AM, Chris B said:

Thanks Walt. Will investigate. 

Hey Walt and Chris! Thanks for bringing this to attention. I've made sure help documents the right-click option for Windows and it should be visible in our next help build. Ta!