Michael Rosa Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Sup people! I've been checking out this application and I'm really impressed with what it can do. I've been porting over my Photoshop work flows, and it has handled every task I've thrown at it. And like everyone else, I'm just looking for a little help. I've been trying to figure out the layers/channels tools in Affinity, and how to use them. I'm an environment artist and this is specific to my terrain workflow. During the production process, I've always taken my textures for a few passes through Photoshop. As part of my editing, I would use masks that I've created to edit specific areas of my diffuse texture. Example: Copy my masks into the alpha channel and start working with "Adjustments", "Layer Effects", etc. Thing is, I can't seem to get Affinity to perform the same tasks. I've checked a few of the Channels/Masks tutorials, but I just can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Either that, or I'm missing something. I have provided a screenshot of the WIP terrain, as well as the diffuse texture and masks. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myclay Posted June 1, 2017 Share Posted June 1, 2017 Hello Michael, load the greyscale textures as layers, for using them as masks, rightclick on the image, rasterise it. within the channels tab,(if you are in greyscale mode) rightclick on the intensity cannel and use 'create Mask Layer'. when done with all Masks, turn the document into RGB to load your coloured image. for each mask, use a copy of the coloured image and group it. now you can use Layer effects which will only take effect within that group. one possible result could be this; cheers myclay MattP 1 Quote Sketchbook (with Affinity Suite usage) | timurariman.com | artstation store Windows 11 Pro - 23H2 | Ryzen 5800X3D | RTX 3090 - 24GB | 128GB | Main SSD with 1TB | SSD 4TB | PCIe SSD 256GB (configured as Scratch disk) | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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