Affinity Photo V2 How Using the new compound masks tutorial helps when creating. Desktop version.

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Affinity Photo V2 How Using the new compound masks tutorial helps when creating. Desktop version.

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Digitally Fearless Affinity with Richard Spezzano

Күн бұрын

In this Affinity Photo v2 desktop tutorial I show how compound masks can be so useful in your workflow. I saw this tutorial done on Photoshop by Mood on KZfaq, but without compound masks and thought about how much better compound masks makes it in Affinity.

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@PhiddyPford 4 ай бұрын

Watched this at least 30 times to finally understand them. I even added more layers! Thanks

@williamcarter6374 Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing this! I'm brand new to Affinity coming from Photoshop after 18 years, but sick of the changes, subscription fees and new policies. There are many use cases for compound masks, and it can be done in PS also. I don't know the official name, but I've heard people call it "masking the mask" where it's especially useful working with complex luminosity masks and compositing work. Similar things can be accomplished using clipping masks. The process is different, but the end result the same. This video was extremely helpful to me since I'm trying to find ways to replicate my workflow in PS. Thanks again for the help!

@DigitallyFearless 2 күн бұрын

I replaced photoshop years ago after working with it for over 20 years. Welcome to the club.

@mikelockwood2104 3 ай бұрын

thank you - well done

@enthusiaticbeginner Жыл бұрын

Marvelous Rich, I learned so much in that 7 mins +, your example is just perfect! Thanks 🙂 I have just recommended on Facebook Affinity Photo page 🙂

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Learning so much is the best compliment I could get. I sometimes wonder whether me experimenting during the video makes people not like me, but I rather show my thinking process as I do it instead of just giving instructions. I'm glad it works for you.😊

@DoctorZebedee Жыл бұрын

Always appreciate your tutorials. I'm gonna go try it right now.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Please do!

@mizzysparrots4874 Жыл бұрын

This is very cool. Thanks for the video and thanks for explaining it

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@raquelbigby5501 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for answering just what I have been wondering about.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Glad to help

@apexnoobgeneral6877 8 ай бұрын

cool cool

@DigitallyFearless 5 ай бұрын

Thanks.

@Gentleman_Songster Жыл бұрын

That's great Rich, very helpful. So far I haven't had to use compound masks, but I'm pretty sure they'll be really useful once I get to grips with them.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

I'm with you. I'm not sure I will use it much, but the example I gave does work, so maybe.

@12thDecember Жыл бұрын

Great explanation, and I think the banana is a better example than a pepper. 😃

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

I felt the banana was a moor a-peeling way to show compound masks. 😃

@Timespider Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting Richard. I really like how you experiment with these apps & let us know what you find. I hadn't been to your channel for a while as youtube doesn't recommend you to me any more along with so many other channels I subscribe to.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I have had the same issue with the channels I subscribe to. Not much we can do. When on KZfaq I go to the section labeled subscribed and find all the videos that I subscribed to.

Жыл бұрын

Its even more under how the maskes interact to each other, this was add, it also subtract, intersect and Xor

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Yes. I am still trying to find uses for this in my projects.

@Cyber_Kriss 8 ай бұрын

So... a compound mask is basically a "maskception", right ?

@TayoAdeniyi Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@ptst19 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, very i teresting. Though, the order of adng mask confused me a lot.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter what order you add the masks. The only thing that matters is that you add a compound mask and then put the two masks inside it.

@pedropuckerstein4670 Жыл бұрын

Rich, thanks and I repeated your experiment and determined that the order of the masks, in this case doesn't matter. What I am still confused about it the following from the help page "compound masks-a powerful masking system that uses the same Boolean operations (i.e., add, subtract, intersect or xor) but are instead applied to multiple mask layers non-destructively, i.e. without altering the individual mask layers." I wanted to understand the algorithm behind compound mask and I still can't figure it out.

@DigitallyFearless Жыл бұрын

I am trying to understand compound masks myself. I know without them you couldn't put two masks together and make it work in the video so that's what my tutorial was about. I will try to experiment with blend and booleans on the mask, but my mind needs to find something that I would use this on for me to understand it. I will keep trying to teach this old dog (me) new tricks.

@pedropuckerstein4670 Жыл бұрын

@@DigitallyFearless the official affinity photo KZfaq tutorial does try to explain the Boolean operations

@pedropuckerstein4670 Жыл бұрын

@@DigitallyFearless I did some more experimenting and of course in your example, adding masks, the order doesn't matter. I played with intersecting and or and of course the order does matter. In the past, when I wanted to highlight people in a group photo, I would create multiple shape masks, blur the background, and mask out the blur for the people I wanted to show without blur. This worked well. I think I can do the same with compound masks.