Moving image masked

[manuef515]

Hello

I make a simple composition of two photos. One background on layer, and second photo associated with a mask layer (pixel created from a selection). My issue is that I would like to move the second image to adjust its position without the mask moving also. I came from Photoshop and it's easy in it (just have to click on the thumbnail of the 2nd image), but don't find the similar possibility in Affinity photo.

Thanks for your help !

[MEB]

Hi manuef515,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
I'm not sure i understood you question correctly... If you right-click the thumbnail of the mask in the Layers panel and select Release Mask it will be un-nested from the parent layer (moved to the top) becoming independent from it.

If you want to move the image inside the mask instead keeping it nested to the image (parent) layer, select the Move Tool, tick Lock Children in the context toolbar and drag the image on canvas (as @stokerg suggested - that's probably what you want to do).

Let me know if neither of these suggestions addressed the issue.

[manuef515]

Thanks for your answer : Yes I tried that, and I can move the 2nd image independently  from the 1st one, but I can't see my first image (background) to have the global result. (sorry for poor english)

[MEB]

Hi manuef515,
Some actions can be a little ambiguous when described in words. Your english is fine, don't worry. 
Do you mind posting a screenshot of the app with the Layers panel visible so we can see how they are structured and tell us what you want to do? What layer do you want to move and to where...

[manuef515]

No problem, I can't do that just now but I post it tonight, thanks

[manuef515]

Hi

so a screenshot, I have a landscape (blue sky and orange leaves) that I associate to a mask to put it into the window (very bad isolating but it's just for demo). I would lik to move the landscape without moving the mask, to adjust the part visible of the landscape ...

Thanks for help

[toltec]

Try clicking on Lock Children on the Context Toolbar.

 

[MEB]

Hi manuef515,
In that case select the Move Tool, tick Lock Children in the context toolbar and drag the image on canvas.

[manuef515]

Yeeeees that was the option I missed, thank you so much !!

[WOEHAA]

So if I understand it correctly, the locking of the mask layer is not a property of the layer, but a modification of the action (in this case "move")

Now that is actually a big mindset change. From a UI perspective, it means that I constantly have to look for options presented somewhere on the screen. 
(or in my case, google like crazy hoping someone thought to ask it on a forum)

Edited November 18, 2019 by WOEHAA

[Barrowman]

Sorry is this something that has changed in the latest version? I can't find the "Lock Children" context menu tick box? 

[thomaso]

23 minutes ago, Barrowman said:

I can't find the "Lock Children" context menu tick box? 

It is most often hidden at the right end of the Toolbar, moved out of view, depending on the contextual content of the toolbar, related to your selected object and tool.  – To make it visible click in the Toolbar on  >>

Edit: I doubt it will appear for a selected text frame, as your screenshot seems to show.

You might want to add your comment or request to this thread which yearns for a different position and a menu-command in the sake of a keyboard short cut:

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by thomaso
... text frame ...

[fruid]

I can see the "lock children" checkbox when the mask is applied to a simple layer, but not when it's applied on a group. In the linked thread above it says that this checkbox is somewhere, just not visible but I still cannot find it, making me think that maybe it's not possible for groups? If so, why not?

This functionality, i.e. move the mask and/or the layer is IMHO very basic and constantly used and should be made easy and intuitive.

EDIT: OK, one thing I noticed which might be a working solution is to have another group within that group and the mask/clipping-mask applies to the outer group. That way you can move the inner group and the mask/clipping-mask stays where it is, since it's applied to the outer group. 

[xicus]

EDIT: i take it back. not sure what caused the change, but after i rasterized the image layer, Lock Children showed up (?)

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i can't see lock children while the move tool is selected. there are no arrows at the end of the context bar. i'd really like to leave the mask where it is and just transform the contents.

Edited January 5, 2023 by xicus
updated

[Chapit Zulkefli]

On 6/20/2018 at 12:31 AM, MEB said:

Hi manuef515,
In that case select the Move Tool, tick Lock Children in the context toolbar and drag the image on canvas.

Hi, I wonder is there any future update on changing this behaviour? Maybe with Cmd / Ctrl + Click or Opt / Alt + Click only to move the masked part?