Jan Attar Posted January 20 Posted January 20 I have a new Mac and see in several video courses on Youtube that the teachers just right-click on the quick mask icon and get a submenu with the following choices; Mask, Empty Mask, Compound Mask, Luminosity Range Mask..., Band Pass Mask... But when I try to do exactly the same thing, I don't get any submenu when right-clicking. I have to go up to the main Layers menu to find Compound Mask, for example. How do I activate right-click on the quick mask icon and why isn't this option set from the start? See the highlighted image to see what I mean by the quick mask icon. Quote
GarryP Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Welcome to the forums @Jan Attar That would suggest to me that you might be using Photo V1 which doesn’t have that menu which was introduced in Photo V2. Quote
carl123 Posted January 21 Posted January 21 12 hours ago, Jan Attar said: How do I activate right-click on the quick mask icon and why isn't this option set from the start? On Macs it used to be hold the Alt key and click the mask icon Not sure if that changed in a later release R C-R and Jan Attar 1 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
walt.farrell Posted January 21 Posted January 21 Assuming you're using V2 of the Affinity applications, this Help topic explains how to create a mask layer: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html Jan Attar 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
smadell Posted January 21 Posted January 21 An additional point. You might not want to refer to that button as the “quick mask button”, since the phrase Quick Mask has a specific (and different) meaning in Affinity Photo. Refer to the Help section - https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/index.html - but quick masking is a way to create and/or modify selections using pixel tools. Jan Attar 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023); 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 18
R C-R Posted January 21 Posted January 21 10 hours ago, carl123 said: On Macs it used to be hold the Alt key and click the mask icon Not sure if that changed in a later release It has not changed in either the current 2.5.7 retail or newest 2.6 beta versions. Note that on Macs, in the keyboard the key is usually marked "option" rather than "Alt" & may include the ⌥ symbol as well. (The V2 help topic @walt.farrell mentioned uses this symbol convention in several places.) Anyway, whatever tutorials said to use right-click either got it wrong or were not talking about the Mac version. Jan Attar 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Jan Attar Posted January 21 Author Posted January 21 12 hours ago, carl123 said: On Macs it used to be hold the Alt key and click the mask icon Not sure if that changed in a later release Thank you very much. It worked with the Alt key ( ⌥ ). Quote
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