IIRC, your third method--clipping by grouping--is how clipping is achieved in Corel's products. So a user coming to Affinity Photo from Corel Paint Shop or Corel Painter is also going to find Affinity's approach to clipping masks confusing at first. I think the basic problem is that Affinity's layer hierarchy list for clipping and masking depends too much on subtle cues like whether you're dragging onto the name or the icon and whether a layer is above or below a certain dividing line. There aren't even any tooltips that come up to explain which layer is being clipped or masked by which other layer.
the part in p shop where you say you clipped the high pass to the lip paint, yet the lip pain was layer 2, but the high-pass was [nested?] in layer 1, which seems like illogical, like a person one picking out a hat to wear, but placing it on person two’s hat because nonsense. i’ve always found this confounding and i’m even more confused now as the “why” seems to be missing
Thank you for sharing, It can be indeed confusing, maybe you can check my layers demystified video series (part 1 can be found at ua-cam.com/video/5paWu2jeFPE/v-deo.html ) this might help a bit :)
IIRC, your third method--clipping by grouping--is how clipping is achieved in Corel's products. So a user coming to Affinity Photo from Corel Paint Shop or Corel Painter is also going to find Affinity's approach to clipping masks confusing at first. I think the basic problem is that Affinity's layer hierarchy list for clipping and masking depends too much on subtle cues like whether you're dragging onto the name or the icon and whether a layer is above or below a certain dividing line. There aren't even any tooltips that come up to explain which layer is being clipped or masked by which other layer.
Thank you for sharing and agree with you that coming from other programs to Affinity is indeed confusing..
Oooohhhh Ya, tinting and sharpening. I got it now...This is great!
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Thanks very interesting . Good explications
Glad you liked it!
the part in p shop where you say you clipped the high pass to the lip paint, yet the lip pain was layer 2, but the high-pass was [nested?] in layer 1, which seems like illogical, like a person one picking out a hat to wear, but placing it on person two’s hat because nonsense. i’ve always found this confounding and i’m even more confused now as the “why” seems to be missing
Thank you for sharing, It can be indeed confusing, maybe you can check my layers demystified video series (part 1 can be found at ua-cam.com/video/5paWu2jeFPE/v-deo.html ) this might help a bit :)
Sorry, I _badly_ need this information, but I could not follow your video. (Been using PS for 15+yrs & Affinity for 3-4yrs)
...what