Kheewz Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hello, guys! Affinity's gotten me under it's spell. I've been using Affinity Photo/Design a lot in my 10-days trial to see if I can do everything I used to on Photoshop with ease. I'm loving it. Most things have even an easier workaround. So, masking is one of the cool different approaches I've encountered, and it's pretty simple to get along with. However, I couldn't—by any means—make the following mask/compositing technique work. Am I missing something or just trying to explore beyond AP actual limits? Can anyone help me? Following are step-by-step of how I do it on PS and, then, how it didn't work on AP. Post-image: I forgot to write on the 3rd image, but, while inside the mask, I pasted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 10, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 10, 2018 Select the car_mask layer you have highlighted in the last screenshot then go to menu Layer ▸ Rasterise to Mask. You may also need to invert the mask. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hey, MEB. I already tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 By the way, even without inverting, there shouldn't be this black shadow, as there's the same blackness on the mask. There should only be a gradient from white to transparent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 10, 2018 Staff Share Posted August 10, 2018 Besides inverting you need to convert the pixel layer to a mask: select the car_mask layer you have highlighted the go to menu Layer ▸ Rasterise to Mask. Kheewz 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Oh, nice. That's the trick. Thanks, MEB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkarl__nn Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Where's the car gone to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 I made it invisible in the layer below, as there wasn't anything wrong with it. Also, fyi, the shadow is looking weird because it's not set in the right mode. I believe it would be overlay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkarl__nn Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Your post intrigued me, so I went off and got a car from some free stock image place, and duplicated your effect. I didn't have a shadow for the car, so I made my own. I didn't use Overlay, I just put the car layer on top of my homemade shadow. More shadow tweaking is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kheewz Posted August 11, 2018 Author Share Posted August 11, 2018 Hey, Tkarl! So, this technique is meant to preserve an original and detailed shadow to composite it into another BG. There's no need to do it if you're just creating the shadows. You can simply create it and put underneath the car layer, as you did. That first project is not with me at the moment, so I redid it to show you what I mean. This is just one case. This is the original image, and I wanted to keep the shadows with all the nuances. This is the compositing result. I used the gradient to make things fast, but a better compositing would be putting it on a road. I'm also uploading the Affinity file, if you want to take a better look. Car.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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