Paintbrush on Mask -- Not 100% Black (AD)

[Mets]

Hi there,

 

I'm getting stuck with masking and the paintbrush tool (in Affinity Designer)...

 

- Pixel Persona

- Have a photo I want to mask

- When I select a part of the photo with any of the selection tools and create a mask from that selection, things are fine. I get a proper black and white mask layer. 

- Now I want to REFINE my mask, by selecting the mask layer, selecting the brush tool, setting the brush color to BLACK and then painting black inside the mask over parts I want to hide. 

 

The problem is...

 

I can never make the brush tool to paint in COMPLETELY BLACK color! The color setting in the color panel is set to completely black (#000000), but the actually painted color on the mask is always dark gray. Never completely black. Thus there are always semi-transparent parts of the image visible. I can never mask them completely. 

 

Any ideas how I can make the brush color to be 100% black?

 

Thanks!

 

[carl123]

Check that the Opacity and Flow in the Context Toolbar for the Brush is set to 100%

[Mets]

Thanks.

 

Yes, all is set to 100%. Forgot to mention that.

 

Here's what's happening: When painting with the same brush on a white pixel layer it's all 100% black. Then, without changing anything, just selecting the image mask layer and painting on it, the brush color becomes dark gray!

 

 

[MEB]

Hi Mets,

Are you working with a CMYK document? If so make sure you have the K set to 100% and all the others (CMY) set to 0%.

[Gnobelix]

Hello Mets,
I had the same problem as you did.
although the black color was set to 100%, the actually painted color on the mask was always a dark beige.
I had previously painted with the gradient tool and changed their settings. Whatever, I did not have any 100% black brushes anymore.
Then I uninstalled Affinity Photo and delete all directories the Affinity uses. AP reinstalled and since then no more problems.
Disadvantage of a new installation is, all user settings, macros, brushes etc get lost,  respectively need to be redone.

Or try first what MEB has written.

Best Regards
Gnobelix

[firstdefence]

Painting on a mask layer using CMYK set to CMY=0 K=100 leaves a residual image that has been erased

 

[firstdefence]

Using these settings for CMYK makes a clean erase.

[munchkinlander]

I know it's a late post, but for others like me wondering this - turning off "wet edges" in the brush options worked for me. I was pulling out my hair trying to figure out what was going on!!

[1GR3]

As the matter of fact, the whites are not really white as well. It seems like the dynamic range of the mask is far lower than it should be.

[prophet]

Found this one today. I was using the Greyscale slider set to 100% Black, which is not actually 100% black for some reason. Had to switch to CMYK sliders and set to 100% black.