Hide Layereffect behind Mask

[25a]

Hi,

I offten draw lightingsituations with AF Photo into Room Pictures. And its easy to draw a Line and give it a glow effect.

Now I´d like to Mask that effect not only the Painted Line, because the light comes out of a gap and goes only in one direction.

In psd it was easy to mask also the effect. In Affinity I guess its similar easy but I cant finde the button.

Did anyone see the "mask-effect-button" ore "hide-effect-by-mask-button"??

Thx for your Help!!

 

Best regards

Nikolai

 

[carl123]

Can you give an example screenshot or jpg of what you want to achieve

It's a little unclear of the effect you want to produce

 

[Ron P.]

Are you wanting to create Light Beams? If so there's a bunch of videos out there showing how it's done in AP.

Light Beams using Affinity Photo (YouTube)

[25a]

Hi,

I drop you some Pictures.

1. is a Picture how it could/should Look like. The light starts at one Point and goes throuhgt the ceiling into the room.

So I take the Picture 2 Mask the Ceiling3 draw a line 4 give that line a glow effect5 and then put the Mask ontop of that6.

Now the Mask should hide the Line and half of the effect so that it looks like in Picture 1

But it doesent.

When I raster the Line (whats not so nice) I can hide this one 7/8 but also the complet effekt.

So? I guess you can guess what I´m up to.

Thx for your Help.

 

[Dan C]

Hi @25a 

There are 2 options here, firstly if you Group the Mask layer with the FX Curve, rather than applying the mask to the layer directly, you should find this works as expected - 

Alternatively, you can rasterise the FX Curve, being sure to untick 'Preserve FX' when prompted. You can then apply the mask directly to the resulting pixel layer -

I hope this helps!

[25a]

Perfect! the one with the Folder is perfect!!!

Thx alot!!!

[Dan C]

No problem at all