safoster71 Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Greetings, i have to say i am LOVING where your going with this so far...but i do have a small question. Is it possible to "invert" the mask on a layer? thanks! Meztli, Aammppaa and midvok 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hevonen Posted June 16, 2015 Share Posted June 16, 2015 Same question. It would come handy. devendra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 16, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 16, 2015 Hi safoster71, hevonen, No, it's not possible to invert a mask directly in Affinity Designer as you do in Affinity Photo (yet). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorialatorre Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Hi! Is this feature available yet? I can't find a way to invert a mask and I can't find it either in the feature requests forum... Thanks! devendra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 8, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 8, 2016 Hi glorialatorre, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, not yet sorry. I will raise this with the dev team. Aammppaa and glorialatorre 2 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 +1 As I have found myself desperate to invert a vector mask in AD several times. devendra and lardbros 2 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyJack Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 +1 As I have found myself desperate to invert a vector mask in AD several times. Well, If you're desperate..... Haul the vector out of the mask position. Add a white rectangle the size of the canvas underneath it. Do a compound (or not) Boolean Subtraction of the two. Stick the result back in the mask position. Desperate times call for desperate measures ;) . Aammppaa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 That was my work around. But it is not elegant. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Desperate times call for desperate measures ;) . Like buying Affinity Photo so you can go back & forth between the apps to use whatever features one but not the other supports? :o Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 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...
JimmyJack Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Like buying Affinity Photo so you can go back & forth between the apps to use whatever features one but not the other supports? :o Now that would be desperate! :D But, yup. That's why I also happily continue on with Illustrator and PShop (and even keep Gimp and Inkscape going even though I can hardly stomach them). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toth Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Is this feature still not on the steps? It seems like such a logical feature, to be able to mask a path/shape out, not masking everything but that path/shape.. The workaround always have me creating much more complex paths to remove something. Let's say I want to hide a circle in a pixel png, I need to produce(via subtract) a shape that encompasses the whole image except the circle, instead of just creating the circle and hit "reverse mask". Is this complicated to implement? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I need this feature so bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 17 hours ago, Kheewz said: I need this feature so bad. If you need to "invert" a mask, Ctrl + click on the mask layer to make a pixel selection, go Select > Invert Pixel Selection (Shift + Ctrl + I) and click the mask button. You end up with the original mask and an inverted mask. Hide the mask you don't want (the original). It might not be "elegant" and it is not a vector mask but it is an inverted mask, if that would help ? toth, Mark Oehlschlager and NotMyFault 3 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheewz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 On 9/30/2018 at 10:32 AM, toltec said: If you need to "invert" a mask, Ctrl + click on the mask layer to make a pixel selection, go Select > Invert Pixel Selection (Shift + Ctrl + I) and click the mask button. You end up with the original mask and an inverted mask. Hide the mask you don't want (the original). It might not be "elegant" and it is not a vector mask but it is an inverted mask, if that would help ? Yeah, it does help. I've been using Photo to invert the mask, but I hope they do implement the elegant way in the near future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toth Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 On 9/30/2018 at 3:32 PM, toltec said: If you need to "invert" a mask, Ctrl + click on the mask layer to make a pixel selection, go Select > Invert Pixel Selection (Shift + Ctrl + I) and click the mask button. You end up with the original mask and an inverted mask. Hide the mask you don't want (the original). It might not be "elegant" and it is not a vector mask but it is an inverted mask, if that would help ? Thank you, it works..! Now if only that exact same function were available for vector masks everything would be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiddish Warmth Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 +1 for myself as well on this feature! I'm looking to use Designer exclusively for my business, but lacking this particular feature would add a LOT to my process. Eek! Thank you & fingers crossed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexey Adamitsky Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Please make it possible to invert masks. I have to use workaround right now but they're quite ugly. I would simply expect to be able to make path negative/invert it. It doesn't work right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Schmidt Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 On 6/16/2015 at 1:04 PM, MEB said: Hi safoster71, hevonen, No, it's not possible to invert a mask directly in Affinity Designer as you do in Affinity Photo (yet). I still, 5 years later, can't invert a mask??? Jason Mark and lepr 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimoCreations Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) I'm not sure if this answers the question, but you can use the "Erase" blendmode at the bottom to use any vector shape as cutout to everything beneath it. If you want to only affect one layer or a group, drag it into a group. Edited September 10, 2020 by TimoCreations javierr, ESPR, Meztli and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goblin Posted September 26, 2020 Share Posted September 26, 2020 On 9/10/2020 at 7:39 PM, TimoCreations said: I'm not sure if this answers the question, but you can use the "Erase" blendmode at the bottom to use any vector shape as cutout to everything beneath it. If you want to only affect one layer or a group, drag it into a group. This answer saved my day. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudantu Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I want a simple switch right next to the mask to switch positive/negative.This is frustrating. midvok, lepr, Meztli and 3 others 6 Quote →MacOS (Latest), M1 Max Mac Studio, Designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripul Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 can someone share a video on this. Nothing works at all, all suggestions tried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 On 6/16/2015 at 3:05 AM, safoster71 said: Greetings, i have to say i am LOVING where your going with this so far...but i do have a small question. Is it possible to "invert" the mask on a layer? The answer was NO in 2015 and still is over five years later. And my question is... why not??? Wosven and Hofnaar 2 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 I agree, invert mask is definitely needed. I would also like a “grow/shrink” option with a vector mask please 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 I think the issue with inverting a vector mask lies in determining where the outer edges of the new mask would end up. In AP, when you invert a pixel mask, it assumes the entire canvas size is what you're working with. With a vector mask, the app would have to know what the bounds of the new vector shape would be: the dimensions of the vector itself? the dimensions of the object being masked? the page size? The dimensions of the object being masked would make the most sense, but there could be different use cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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