Understanding Masks in Affinity Photo/Mask Basics Fully Explained
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- Gain a clear understanding of masks and how to use them in Affinity Photo and other Affinity applications.
0:00 Intro
0:21 Basic mask concepts
4:40 Using masks with graphic image in Affinity Photo
8:43 Working with first photograph
10:15 First photograph, applying masks to adjustments
11:56 Working with second photograph - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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I think you're the best 'trainer' here, showing us how to use Affinity. You have a voice which is very easy to listen to and you explain things so well. You deserve millions of subscribers.
Well, thank you so much! I greatly appreciate that.
Thanks for this. I am a rookie to Affinity, but learning how to use it to develop photos. This was VERY helpful. Watched twice!
Great to hear! So glad you found the video helpful.
Excellent explanation of masks! I’ve casually worked with graphics (vector and raster) for years, but never took advantage of masks simply because I didn’t bother learning what they were for. Thank you for the new tool ! Really enjoying Affinity 2.0x!
Thanks so much! Glad it helped.
Thanks for sharing. 1st time viewer & now Subscriber. I've been struggling on how to use the maskikng features in Affiniy Photo, and your explanation has really helped out. I still have a long ways to go to be able to use masks in Affinity Photo like I can with "videos" using DaVinci Resolve (which is much more intuitive).
You're welcome! Thanks for the feedback. Happy you found the video helpful.
Thanks Bill. Your cumulative approach to teaching is very effective.
Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
Very comprehensive and easy to follow. You are an awesome teacher! Thanks!!!
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Very clear and enormously helpful. I can now be much more subtle in my editing technique. Rhanks.
You're welcome! So glad you found it helpful.
Thanks for this. Very clearly explained for those of us who like a visual explanation.
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Awesome tutorial, very nicely done... Your teaching style is impeccable! We look forward to more tutorials if your others are as thorough as this one! 👏
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Thanks for the video and the very clear explanation of masks.
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Best explanation yet, I struggle with masks!
Thank you very much!
Thank you. This is the best explanation of masks & masking.
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Thanks Bill, very clearly explained. I'm slowly getting there with affinity Photo's layers and masks.
Glad to be of help! Thank you.
Excellent! Just what I needed!! Thank you so much!
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Perfect explanation. Thanks so much!
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Excellent, beautiful details.
Thank you very much!
Hi Bill, you are excellent at simplifying tutorials thank you for a very informative lesson many thanks.
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for the feedback.
Hello and thank you for the great tutorial video on masking. It really has helped my understanding of masking and not just for affinity photo
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Very very helpful - thanks for posting.
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What a brilliant tutorial. Thank you.
Thanks so much! and you're welcome!
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge, your teaching is very clear and understandable👏👏👏
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Enjoyed, very clear and good speed of presentation
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Bill, now I understand well explained thank you.
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Best describes I have seen so helpful
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Thanks, very clear and didactic
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I'm Still in my 30 day free trial using AP V2, my muscle memory is locked into CS5 and I'm finding AP to be clumsy and awkward by comparison. I will persevere until the end of the trial.
Best of luck!
Wonderful tutorial! Thx! The beginning had amazing graphics! My only issue was 2:28 and 3:08. How come the paint was black or white outside the circle?
Thank you! That was just to show what colour paint was being used. Realistically, though, that wouldn't happen.
I'm not so sure but maybe empty for him it's a verb and it's referring to a type of action and effect and not an adjective or a property of a thing. Maybe black has ability to "empty"something like a surface.
Empty masks used to be called black masks then, starting with version 2, they were renamed to empty masks. I think it's better to it a black mask. Anyway, black and empty do the same thing: they make something invisible.
How do I place a rectangle behind a figure in Photo? I use the selection brush tool to outline the figure and I get dotted lines around the figure.
Then I duplicate the original layer and select the original layer with the selected figure and create a mask layer.
But I am having a hard time getting the figure to show forward over the rectangle layer.
First select the figure you want to place in front of the rectangle. Once you've completed your selection click the "Refine..." button on the context toolbar at the top of the screen. At the bottom of the Refine Selection dialog you'll see "Output." By default it's set to 'Selection.' Change it to 'New layer with mask' and click apply. The selected figure will be placed by itself onto a new layer. You can now create your rectangle which will be on its own pixel layer. Now you can simply move the rectangle's pixel layer under the layer containing the selected figure from your photo. Hope this helps.
One thing I can't seem to understand is that when you place your cursor over the mask layer button, you get several possibilities. Yet in my version (I'm on 2.3.0) I don't get any choices - I'm on a Mac, if that changes anything.
Ha ha! They changed the interface. Now if you hold down the option key and click on the icon you'll get the little menu like in the video.
@@billblakely Thanks.
Hi, thanks for the video. However, when I want to choose an empty mask I have to hold down Option (on my Mac) when clicking the Mask icon, whereas you seem to have access to the mask menu with one click....?
The UI has changed since the video was made. You now have to hold the option key down to access the drop down menu.
@@billblakely Thank you Bill. While I'm here, I'd like to point out that I tried to recreate your white mask example at 2.22 approx. but haven't been able to..... I'm a bit of a noob and have been struggling a bit with black masks/white masks and have gone over that example many times but still don't understand how we get different results. I could not replicate the black line over the pink background, what I get is simply a white line right through both the pink square and the yellow circle; I tried setting the background to transparent and then I get a line showing the checkered background through both... is there some setting to do with layers or masks that I'm getting wrong? Also, when I apply an empty mask, I just get a white screen, unlike your pink background... I'm hoping it's easily resolved! Thanks.
My apologies. The first part of the video is a graphical representation to help explain how masks work. The black line you speak of is there simply to show the colour paint being used. In reality you wouldn't see that; you would see what you're getting. Sorry for the confusion. But the good news is that the masks are working as they should and you're doing everything right.
If you only want to make the circle invisible you can do it two ways: 1. Put the circle on a separate layer all by itself and apply an empty mask to that layer 2. Leave everything on one layer and apply a mask and paint black over the circle to make it invisible or apply an empty mask and paint white around the circle so everything but the circle is visible. Of course you have to paint on the mask layer.
Hope this helped.
@@billblakely Thanks Bill, I feel so much better knowing it's not me just being thick! Well, I've just come down with the flu, but apart from that... I'll try out your example later. Much appreciate you getting back to me ☺
I will never get this. My brain just wont allow it; even after years of using Adobe CS and Affinity :/
I understand how you feel. The problem with masks is that they're completely abstract. There's nothing like them in the real world. Why not experiment with them? Load a jpeg into Affinity. You'll just have a single image layer. Apply a mask to it and paint on it with white, black and grey brushes and observe the different effects each brush colour has. Just keep doing that until you figure it out. It's actually pretty simple. I'm sure you'll get it.
@@billblakely Thank you for your kind reply. What I would like to achieve is to slectively sharpen, say, parts of a landscape scene, whilst protecting the rest. Is this done using masks? Would it be an empty mask on top of a pixel layer that has had a sharpening adjustment layer applied first; then a white brush to reveal the parts you want to show has been sharpened? I am just blind to the process lol. You are right though, I need to keep trying them out in Affinity Photo. Thanks again.
@@billblakely Its not 8am here, yet and I'm sat putting my idea in to practice and it has worked. Then I reversed the process using a 'white' mask and black brush to hide specific parts of the sharpened image; and it worked too lol. I am seeing some light. Your video actually did the trick for me more than I had initially realised - the principles you shared. Thank you again 👍 I just need to persevere.
Wow! That's great. You're well on the way. Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.
@@billblakely Thanks for your encouragement, Bill.
I don’t think that - seemingly - having two types of masks (”empty“ and ”normal“) clarifies the issue in any way. Why don’t just say you have ONE or ”a“ mask assigned to a pixel layer and parts of this pixel layer are simply revealed or hidden according to the grey value in this one mask at the corresponding areas. Everything else unnecessarily complicates the matter. And why on earth call a mask ”empty“ when it (being filled with black) has the maximum effect on the pixel layer it's assigned to (i.e. hiding it completely)? In my understanding ”empty“ should just do nothing (like the ”normal“ white mask does)...
I agree. White masks and empty (black) masks are one and the same. They're just masks: one is painted white and the other black. It does confuse things. But having a mask that is automatically painted all white or black for you is handy. Maybe calling them "White Painted" and "Black Painted" would be clearer and more straightforward. I don't know why Serif calls a black mask an Empty Mask. I don't care for it. But, alll in all, this is pretty minor stuff.
Having given it further thought, I think having white and black masks helps make them easier to understand. Masks have no counterpart in the physical world.Whether you paint a clear pane of glass white, black or any shade of grey, it will become opaque. You won't be able to see through it. So masks are completely abstract. And having white and black masks doesn't really complicate anything. It's a good way to think about them: white is transparent, black is opaque, and shades of grey are somewhere in between. But calling a black mask an empty mask adds needless confusion and breaks the colour metaphor. That was a really bad idea.
Your audio is shocking too bassy and deep very hard to hear
Thanks for the feedback. I was wondering about this. I do enhance the bass in my audio. Sometimes it is the sound system one's using. I know if I watch one person's videos on my TV his bassy voice blends into the background and I can't make out a word, but on my computer he sounds just fine. I don't have a problem with my own videos but, of course, I already know what I'm saying. I will see what I can do about this for future videos. In the meantime, if it helps, you can turn on captioning. It works quite well. Thanks again.
@@billblakely This was on my computer where everything is normally crystal clear
Okay, this is helpful. Thank you.
Your voice was perfect. Change nothing...
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for the late reply. Just saw this.