safoster71 24 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! 1 Aammppaa reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hevonen 8 Posted June 16, 2015 Same question. It would come handy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEB 6,827 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). Affinity Quick Reference | Common Feature Requests | Call for Camera Images Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
glorialatorre 0 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEB 6,827 Posted June 8, 2016 Hi glorialatorre, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No, not yet sorry. I will raise this with the dev team. 2 glorialatorre and Aammppaa reacted to this Affinity Quick Reference | Common Feature Requests | Call for Camera Images Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aammppaa 382 Posted March 17, 2017 +1 As I have found myself desperate to invert a vector mask in AD several times. Win7 Ultimate x64 | i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz | 16 GB RAM | 120 GB SSD | nVidia GTX 660 Ti | Huion 1060 Plus ScreenToGIF (Open Source, Portable, ~610kB) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimmyJack 376 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 ;) . 1 Aammppaa reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aammppaa 382 Posted March 18, 2017 That was my work around. But it is not elegant. Win7 Ultimate x64 | i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz | 16 GB RAM | 120 GB SSD | nVidia GTX 660 Ti | Huion 1060 Plus ScreenToGIF (Open Source, Portable, ~610kB) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
R C-R 2,602 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 Affinity Photo 1.6.7 & Affinity Designer 1.6.1; macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 iMac (27-inch, Late 2012); 2.9GHz i5 CPU; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M; 8GB RAMAffinity Photo 1.6.11.85 & Affinity Designer 1.6..4.45 for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iOS 12.1.1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JimmyJack 376 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). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toth 1 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kheewz 6 Posted September 30, 2018 I need this feature so bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toltec 1,156 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 ? 1 toth reacted to this Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kheewz 6 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toth 1 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
