How to invert mask on Affinity Designer 2 [IPAD]

[Polycord]

Hey there!

I am trying to invert a mask I’ve made on Affinity Designer 2 [IPAD] and I cannot find a way to do it, does anyone know how to invert a mask?

[NotMyFault]

Long-press with one finger on the canvas.

A pop-up will show up, choose „invert Pixel selection“

 

[Polycord]

Thanks for the response! It’s always the small details haha!

[Polycord]

Hey, now that I’ve checked. I think you understood me wrong. I was talking about making the white part black and the rest white. Is there something I am doing wrong?

[NotMyFault]

Just reading again: to invert a mask, you need several steps:

1. selection from layer (mask layer)
2. delete mask
3. invert pixel selection
4. create mask from selection.

 

[Polycord]

Ah, I understand. But how do you create a mask? It’s because I am still very new to this even after using Affinity for a few months now and I don’t know all the controls and stuff.

[NotMyFault]

3 minutes ago, Polycord said:

Hey, now that I’ve checked. I think you understood me wrong. I was talking about making the white part black and the rest white. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Affinity intentionally crippled several pixel related functions from Designer (Pixel Persona). You may need to use Photo to get all those goodies:

• channels panel, allows to invert any mask directly
• Rasterize, merge and flatten (those are available on iPad, but not on desktop)
• other stuff I forgot.

[NotMyFault]

2 minutes ago, Polycord said:

Ah, I understand. But how do you create a mask? It’s because I am still very new to this even after using Affinity for a few months now and I don’t know all the controls and stuff.

The + sign in the layer panel/studio will do the trick

[Polycord]

Ah, thank you! I always keep forgetting about the + sign in layer panel

[Polycord]

This time it worked