AaronRobinson Posted March 10, 2019 Posted March 10, 2019 I should start by saying I am still a novice to affinity and do not use it on a regular basis (and thus have to frequently revisit certain workflows in the designer). However, I am finding if I want to do certain affects, I might copy a layer and then mask it to another layer. Then I can use layer effects (burn,substract,add,etc) to create this effect over a subselection of the design. This seems to be the best way to get a kind of projected overlay effect where by I can better control a layer blocking another layer but then specially adjust intersecting area using the masked layed. through this process I copy two different layers: one becomes the mask and the other is masked. I also will use the original layers in this effect., so I end up with 3 layers, 1 being the masked layer (a product of copies from the other two). Now, if at any point in my designing process, I want to revisit changing the original layer used in the mask, such that the outline changes, then this change will not be affected in the masked layer, because I masked via a copy of the layer and this is the only way to do this masked layer operationally, is this correct? There is no solution for this is there? Likewise if I want to change the original layer which is copied and masked, then the masked layer created from the copy does not reflect the changes in the original layer when I change it and thus I have to repeat the process of creating the masked layer (the same as required to fix the previous mentioned issue). At a fundamental level this is not complex but if I repeat this over multiple layers, it could become tedious. Is there no solution (e.g. Copy by reference -- thus changes are reflected in both places)? Is my workflow wrong? Quote
Staff Lee D Posted March 13, 2019 Staff Posted March 13, 2019 Using Symbols you can have multiple objects that update automatically when one is adjusted, see this video for more info on Symbols. However Masks don't work this way, copies of a mask would need to be manually adjusted or copied again. Quote
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