Affinity Photo 2 | Edit Mask Layer with Curves

[Ruslan TV]

Hi! Working with a mask is critycal part of professional work. Now
— You can't quickly convert Mask Layer to Pixel layer.
— You can't edit Mask Layer with Adjustment Layer (it just doesn't work for Mask layer) 
Is it possible to fix it any time soon?

[Lee_T]

Hi Ruslan TV, 

With your layer selected, click the channels studio, find your layer named "mask alpha", right click it and create greyscale layer. This will create a pixel layer from your mask.

Using the same method you can then use adjustment layers on the new greyscale pixel layer, and if you wish, convert it back to a mask (Layer > Rasterise to mask)

Hope this helps.

Lee

[Ruslan TV]

@Lee_TThank you! 

But this is not a solution, but rather a cumbersome workaround. You still won’t be able to see the effect of mask correction in real time.

[Frozen Death Knight]

18 hours ago, Ruslan TV said:

@Lee_TThank you! 

But this is not a solution, but rather a cumbersome workaround. You still won’t be able to see the effect of mask correction in real time.

It is possible to make some macros that converts and re-converts a Mask Layer after having applied some preferred Adjustment Layer settings. Though I agree that it should be possible to do adjustments directly on to the mask without the need to do so.

[fde101]

If the mask was originally applied as a child of some other layer:

Drag the mask out from underneath the layer and place it above the layer that was masked.  Group them.  Place a Curves Adjustment as a mask of the mask layer, and adjust its Alpha (not Master) curve.