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Hello

When painting white on a mask in order to erase part of a picture, it all works fine, but, a fine edge is left like on the sample. It's like the hardness isn't set on 100%, but it is.

What is wrong?

Very thankful for guidance.

Best,

Arnaldo

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Hello and welcome to the forum!

Did you checked before if the opacity setting was set on 100% for the used brush?

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10 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Did you checked before if the opacity setting was set on 100% for the used brush?

Thanks!

Yes, the opacity, flow and hardness at 100% .

This problem to me seems like a bug, because before, in some project it's been all ok. 

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Painting white on a mask would not normally erase part of a picture, you would normally use a black brush on the mask to do that.

Are you sure you have just the mask layer selected in the layers panel and not the pixel/background layer?

If you still cant fix it, upload a screenshot showing the brush settings and the layers panel showing the mask layer selected

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Hi again and thanks for staying in touch. 

Uploaded a clip from my screen. As you see, now as I open the same picture again, adding a mask and brushing black and white  - it's even worse than before, the "black" is grey and transparent. Painting with white again doesn't restore completely.

I found a similar troubleshooting on the forum here: 

 

It seems that the only solution was to reinstall Affinity...  ??

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8 minutes ago, >|< said:

You might want to retest that. You have wet edges enabled in your video and the result you're getting is exactly the result I get if wet edges is enabled.

You're right @>|< That was the problem in the setting in the video. Thank you for insisting.

Further, I think the original problem with the grey edges was caused by something else. I am sure I had tried the "Wet Edges" setting then, on and off lots of times, without solving the problem..

But now I tried the "Reset brushes" in the Preferences, and all works fine. If the problem with the edges return I will try that.

Thank you all for assisting! 

And Affinity Photo is very useful and nice to work with, for sure. :)

 

Best,

Arnaldo

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