phanault Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Hi guys, This is my first post. First of all, please excuse my English. French is my native language. Here's the problem I'm facing : I created a mask by selecting part of an image and then used the "Refine edge" dialog. I then choose to create a new layer with it's mask as the output of the refine edge dialog. Once the layer and mask created, I selected the mask and tried to invert it. I never found a way to do this. I'm used to photoshop, so I tried Cmd-I... right-click and so on. I couldn't find a way to achieve this simple task. I then searched the help and found a topic about a "Mask Panel". I searched everywhere but never found such panel. What am I missing ? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted February 13, 2015 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2015 We don't have a mask panel at the moment. We are going to make inverting masks easier soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phanault Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 We don't have a mask panel at the moment. We are going to make inverting masks easier soon. Does it mean that it can be done but in a way that isn't obvious ? I'd be more than happy to learn it ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeFromMesa Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Hi guys, This is my first post. First of all, please excuse my English. French is my native language. Here's the problem I'm facing : I created a mask by selecting part of an image and then used the "Refine edge" dialog. I then choose to create a new layer with it's mask as the output of the refine edge dialog. Once the layer and mask created, I selected the mask and tried to invert it. I never found a way to do this. I'm used to photoshop, so I tried Cmd-I... right-click and so on. I couldn't find a way to achieve this simple task. I then searched the help and found a topic about a "Mask Panel". I searched everywhere but never found such panel. What am I missing ? Thanks. Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post, but why do you not reverse the selection before you create the mask rather than after? You can do that easily enough with Select -> Invert Pixel Selection and that is what I do. If I am misunderstanding your question, my apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan9940 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Hey Mike, Nice to see you 'round these parts, too...we seem to be chasing down many of the same tools lately! :) Like you, I invert my selection/refine edge/etc all before creating the mask. That said, though, it would be nice to have a convenient way to invert a mask after the fact. IMO, the whole masking concept in Affinity Photo needs some work. Creating a masked adjustment layer from a selection, for example, is straightforward and pretty much how I expect it to work. However, creating a pixel-based layer with adjustments and/or filters/etc applied to it, and then masking as needed is not intuitive. I hope this is an area that the developers eventually refine. Best regards, AlanH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Vanhalst Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I'm a photoshop user as well and to be honest I hoped Affinity would be be a bit more intuitive compared to Adobe but I might need to dig in the help files a bit more to get a grip on it. Creating a mask and painting doesn't seem to work and doesn't let you see a miniature of the mask being created with shades and so to give you an idea about the amount of opacity used. Addressing a mask to a layer or a group isn't even intuitive to my liking for now. I'm guilty in inverting masks as well from time to time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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