Layer masks use the lightness/darkness of your brush color to draw opacity on the layer it’s masking. The darker your color, the more it removes the opacity of the affected layer. Clipping masks are like the alpha lock feature but on a separate layer. It will only allow your brush to draw on rendered pixels. Clipping masks differ from alpha lock in that clipping masks have the brushstrokes still exist outside what is considered rendered. So if you turned off the clipping, you would see brushstrokes outside of what layer it was clipped to. Alpha lock on the other hand does not render brushstrokes outside of the rendered pixels at all.
I do exactly the same steps as you, but the image is always pasted in a new layer instead of within the mask. Anybody an idea what’s wrong? my mask is selected and the layer isn’t but the image anyways lands on top. EDIT: I found the solution. The mask has to be absolutely empty. My mask wasn’t and I wasn’t even aware of that. So if that’s the case the image is pasted as a new layer. As soon as I cleared the mask, it worked. Thanks for the video and the textures!
Amazingly good explanation of a very confusing topic. Thanks!!!
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Thank you so much for the tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for.
I'm still trying to figure out the difference between layer masks and clipping masks.
Layer masks use the lightness/darkness of your brush color to draw opacity on the layer it’s masking. The darker your color, the more it removes the opacity of the affected layer. Clipping masks are like the alpha lock feature but on a separate layer. It will only allow your brush to draw on rendered pixels. Clipping masks differ from alpha lock in that clipping masks have the brushstrokes still exist outside what is considered rendered. So if you turned off the clipping, you would see brushstrokes outside of what layer it was clipped to. Alpha lock on the other hand does not render brushstrokes outside of the rendered pixels at all.
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how to add your download textures to procreate? thanks
I do exactly the same steps as you, but the image is always pasted in a new layer instead of within the mask. Anybody an idea what’s wrong? my mask is selected and the layer isn’t but the image anyways lands on top.
EDIT: I found the solution. The mask has to be absolutely empty. My mask wasn’t and I wasn’t even aware of that. So if that’s the case the image is pasted as a new layer. As soon as I cleared the mask, it worked. Thanks for the video and the textures!
Thanks, I faced the same problem