affinity photo The Lioness: Working with Masks

[Taxicab Messiah]

This one is really simple.  Just a lion and a model but it actually took a lot of work.  Masks are still causing me trouble.  You can drop layers and masks inside other layers and masks in multiple different ways or above or below other objects and I still don't understand exactly what is happening.  I figured I would spend some time today getting used to it.  I created some brushes today and used them (failed 2nd image) but found that a 0% hardness basic round brush fading into a lion was really the right look for something cool.  One trick I found was using a brush that was really large - like 1,000 pixels and just tapping it once was good for a nice fade, then going back with a reasonable sized brush to refine things.

[Twolane]

That first image is haunting. (Great user name, by the way.)

[carl123]

7 hours ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

Just a lion and a model but it actually took a lot of work.  Masks are still causing me trouble

Can you be more specific?

Merging 2 images should be relatively simple with just one mask layer

[Taxicab Messiah]

6 hours ago, carl123 said:

I get more specific in the very next sentence, lol.  -  "Masks are still causing me trouble.  You can drop layers and masks inside other layers and masks in multiple different ways or above or below other objects and I still don't understand exactly what is happening."