hifred Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Coming from Photoshop I have quite a problem with the Mask previews in Affinities Layer stack: The Mask preview is tiny + its size can not get adjusted The Mask preview doesn’t show the actual mask, but a splotch icon (!) The Mask preview appears square, regardless of document aspect ratio Is there a good reason for any of this? I’m serious. Mask preview in Photoshop help me greatly... with orientation with many documents open when editing a single document across several screens (e.g. Cintiq) and most of all inside documents with poor/non-existing Layer naming With a large Mask preview I can (in most cases) see right away what this layer does – without even having a layer name. I can confidently click the correct mask for some further tweaking – in Affinity I have no idea what the mask does (until I Alt-Click it). With a Mask preview that matches the document aspect ratio I can see right away whether the correct window has focus (the correct layer stack for the document is showing). How can you all work with this – what am I doing wrong? Obviously there's people who have hundreds of Layers and want things as compact as possible – but why isn't this configurable? Photohops Mask Preview in comparison. Quote [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Unfortunately there is nothing you can do at the moment but by all means put a request for such features for the Layers Panel Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted July 14, 2018 Staff Share Posted July 14, 2018 As firstdefence has mentioned this is not currently a change-able option unfortunately. I'll have this thread moved to our feature requests section as we're always looking to improve our apps! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifred Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 Thanks both (also for moving the thread)! I had thought of posting this in feature requests – but then I was sure I must be missing something :o) Quote [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hifred Posted July 14, 2018 Author Share Posted July 14, 2018 I should add that the same peculiarities apply to the Layer thumbnail itself: Also the Layer Preview is super tiny and hardly helps me with orientation in the document. And it's again always square, regardless of document aspect ratio. That's not good either. Quote [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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