Frank Jonen Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Masks, everybody has to do them, why not manage and utilise them in a meaningful way? We could bring in external masks/alphas paint grayscale layers or have selections saved as channels. We could bring them in as linked images or embed them to the document. Each time we create a new adjustment or filter layer we have to either go through the channels, create a selection from a channel or rasterise an existing grayscale layer to a mask. That's the inefficient time-vampire kind of way. How about letting us store and manage channels in a meaningful way? Example: I have a mask drawn and want to move on from it to recall later. I could right-click and select "Store as Single-Channel… > Select / New channel" or "Store as Multi-Channel" for additional RGBs like normals or object coordinates for relighting. (In the channels list RGB sets would be displayed as a channel group, users can also create channel groups, RGBs are just automatically generated for the user) When I need that selection in a tool, the tool would just have a dropdown menu listing all the available channels (incl. RGBA) and I could select the mask I've just made. If I make changes to that mask, all tools using that mask update automatically. No hassle, no extra time cost. Frankentoon Studio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Linked layers are dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Jonen Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 Not really a linked layer though. More like channel access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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