Locking Transparency with “Protect Alpha” - Tutorial for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer
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What does the mysterious brush option “Protect Alpha” do in Affinity Designer and Photo? Why would we use it? Today we’ll look at this feature (also knows as “Lock Transparency” or “Alpha Lock”) and see some demos of how it can be used to make digital painting much easier.
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CONTENTS
00:00 Intro
00:25 Sphere Demo
02:30 Working with Layers
03:04 Word of Warning!
03:49 Affinity Designer Demo
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Great tutorial 😊
Thank you! 😊
I never knew. Thank you!
No problem!
Really great tutorials. The best I have seen on the Affinity products. This channel is gonna really skyrocket soon. Great work!
Thanks Sean!
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Thanks for watching, MTM!
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Fantastic, I wondered where the protect alpha button was, how come I didn't notice it. Many thanks for this.
Yes, it works differently in Affinity programs than in other programs I've used.
Learned so much from your videos. Thank you sir. Perhaps using the vector flood fill tool for coloring may be a better option to start with when using designer? Then off to the brush for shadows and highlights.
Thanks for the suggestion, David!
Yes, vector flood is another way to do it. I think which method you choose mostly depends on how your shapes are connected and how you prefer to paint them. For example, with the pixel method, I can make all my grass and leaves as one layer even though they may be disconnected. Then I can easily sweep my brush across all of them. I believe with the vector method, I'd need to keep selecting areas that aren't connected in order to select them. But, a great benefit of the vector flood tool is that I can easily modify my linework later on.
Perhaps I will do a video on the vector flood tool and explore these methods 😎
@@TechnicallyTrent Excellent. There are so many ways to get things done.
Hi, interesting tutorial, still how do you add color pellets in the document as above ?
Hi, are you referring to the video at 6:36? I just made some squares and gave them colors I wanted to use. I color picked them from some other cartoon artwork that had colors I liked. Hope this helps!
I had been doing this in Pixel Persona a little differently but with the same result. If I highlighted a layer then started to paint the assistant would make a pixel layer that was clipped inside the object so I would be painting inside the lines. I can't see how that is different than this. I'll have to look closer at it.
Hi Karin, your method also works. Actually, I am making a video now on the Vector Flood Fill tool and will be showing a coloring method similar to yours, so stay tuned :)
@@TechnicallyTrent In playing around with it I couldn't get it to work with a vector object. I have to have the pixel layer clipped inside. I went back and re-watched your video and saw that you rasterized the object "to make it easier". But, in reality you have to rasterize it in order to use protect alpha.
Boa tarde. As minhas desculpas por escrever em português. Será que o meu Caro Senhor poderia explicar como guardar uma imagem em CMYK para utilizar depois em livro e ir para a gráfica. Muito obrigado pela atenção que lhe possa mercer este meu pedido.
Hi @augustosousa.50! In Affinity Designer, you can change to CMYK by going to Document Setup -> Color tab. Hope this helps!