Designer 2.2.1 - How to edit existing gradients in Masks?

[Davide.Barranca]

Hi all,

I'm drawing a gradient as a mask for a vector layer:

All is good, except that, subsequently, I don't seem able to edit the gradient anymore:

When I try to edit the existing gradient in the Mask (which I'm assuming is editable, but I might be wrong), as soon as I click anywhere with the gradient tool, Designer gets me back to the composite visualization:

I'd have expected the same behaviour with gradient fills. Is this as expected? 
Thanks,

Davide

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[Davide.Barranca]

Thanks!

Let me understand: shapes will act as 1bit masks (either visible or invisible):

But there's no way to modulate the mask transparency in a non-destructive way, right?
I wasn't expecting that—a bit of a bummer.

 

[NotMyFault]

When using vector shapes for masking, you need to change the opacity value of gradient colors. The color itself doesn’t matter.

when using mask layers, the color lightness value is used. 
 

 

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[Davide.Barranca]

A-HA!!
By Jove, I got it 😄 

Thank you all, the video was especially helpful.

[drkanukie]

Same here that video is gold this was driving me nuts as to how it works. The weird thing with raster masks in Designer if you use a black and white image and drop it as a mask it acts like a single color image. If you create a mask later you can paint in black (subtractive) and white (additive). But the raster mask doesn't work that way. This is weird.

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[drkanukie]

Thanks @Return thats a useful way to use an existing image as a mask. Appreciate the video. Would never have throught of it otherwise.

 

[nicolleen]

I've got the same question and would love to see this really helpful video. All I get is a grey screen with a Play arrow, that doesn't work. Is this video still online?