Jaffa Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I have been creating many standard layers and child layers - it seems forever. However, one thing I have taken for granted up to now is that I am creating Child Layers in the correct way. However, have just realised that Windows Affinity Photo shows a small perpendicular line and that seems to be the normal way to achieve it. The way I have been doing it is to drop the adjustment layer into the blue line that does not extend all the way to the left, my image re-inforces what I mean. My overall question therefore is - what is the difference between using the "partial" blue horizontal line and the small blue vertical line? (Note: I fully realise that the "full" blue horizontal line is used to create a parent or standard layer). Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 When you drop a layer just below a shape layer to give you that partial horizontal blue line, the dropped layer is clipped to the shape so that the parts outside of the clipping shape disappear, but the clipping shape remains visible. When you drop the shape onto the thumbnail of the other layer, you get that small vertical blue line and the target layer is masked by (or cropped to) the shape that you dropped on it, and the masking/cropping shape disappears. Jaffa 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Watching the Affinity Photo - Clipping vs Masking video tutorial may make this clearer. (It works the same in all Affinity apps.) Jaffa 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted March 30, 2019 Author Share Posted March 30, 2019 Many thanks for your responses, RC-R and Alfred. I have watched the video tutorial a couple of times and now understand. What confused me at first, was that I wondered how I had managed fine, so far. However James Ritson, explains that at the end when he says that both the clipping and masking work the same when you are dealing with adjustment layers, etc. It is just in situations I don't really encounter at this stage, that the difference is crucial. Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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