The only problem I have with your KZfaq channel is that I did not find this a LONG time ago. Just freaking awesome!! You will be saving me a lot of time and grief!!! Thanks!!!

One of the best explanations of this tool that I have come across. Clear and easy to follow.

Great tutorial. Quick mask is so simple yet I've always had problems with it. Thank you

Robin, This was a truly excellent presentation which had the optimal pace, content and background information. Great presentations like yours has the attribute of making the complex simple. So thank you so much.

Great tutorial, thanks. Looking forward to the Refine tutorial - I usually struggle a bit with Refine!!

Brilliant.... again!!! Like others have said, I wish I had have found your channel a long time ago... learning Affinity has been a long journey of determination.... your videos have eased the pain....

Thanks Robin, Really concise, clear and useful video.

Brilliant Robin! Although I have been using Affinity for some time, you addressed a few issues that were causing me grief - that is in saving selections for future use. Thanks so much 🙏

Your video is very helpful to me. Now I understand the function of Quick Masks. Thank you so much.

Brilliant tutorial, thanks for sharing

Excellent video. Best hint was saving a selection.

Excellent video. Clear. Advanced. And thank you.

Thanks; a clearly-explained tutorial.

Thanks. The quick mask is a tool I think I need to use more!

Very helpful tutorial. Thanks.

Excellent presentation. Very helpful.

Excellent tutorial, Robin. As someone who's busy making videos I often don't get the time to make "proper" thumbnails, as I'm not a designer or have a particular eye for layout. Like many, I've been trying to find shorts cuts to making nice simple thumbnails. However, like with most things I life, there really are no shortcuts. Having watched this tutorial I've managed to create an "OK" thumbnail for a video. Yes, it's taken me more time than I'd care to spend but the simple truth is that you don't get a free lunch and you do have to take time with such things. This tutorial had been awesome for me and definitely worth a sub. I'll be sure to trawl through your other videos 👍 Cheers, Dave.

Thank you very much. The lesson was good, but I appreciate the quiet, reasoned approach even more - a welcome contrast to the shouty idiots in back-to-front hats. Too much time spent on-line during lock-down.

A good tutorial Robin - thanks. One tip: hold the Option key to activate the Subtract mode, rather than going up to the top bar to change to Subtract.

Brilliant ...

brilliant

Merci

Hi Robin, very good demo. There was a lot here I hadn’t understood before. One question, do you use your mouse or an input device like a Wacom tablet. If you’re using a tablet, I’d be interested in seeing how you use it.

Robin, Thank you! I've been using Affinity Photo for a while, but had not mastered the use of the quick mask tool, as I use it in conjunction with Capture One. This is brilliant, and excellently instructive. CHEERS!! Also, to Dan's question, do you use a tablet? I do use both Capture One and Affinity photo with my Huion tablet ( Wacom competitor). When masking like you have shown here, the use of a stylus is easier than doing it with a mouse. My 2 cents.......

Robin, very well done. Thank you. Question: What size monitor and at what screen resolution do you use? As I age. I am discovering that Affinity's tool and other icons are too small. I am using a 25" monitor at 1440. What would you recommend? Thanks again.

Well well what can say how long has that box been in Affinity never noticed it. I always just clicked refine 🤔... 🤣🤣across the top to bring the red mask up is their a difference or just same can't wait to go home and see the box 😁 also great tip video

Thanks for that 'throw-away' tip to reset the studio. I must have diddled about one time too many & lost the channels header, which meant I had to View, Studio & tick Channels every time I needed it; then it was gone again down the black 'ole. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 15", 7195, 2-in-1 with 4k touchscreen (Black Friday from Santa 😎) and while, overall loving working with the stylus, I'm encountering quite a lot of quirks & things wot just don't work as they should. Not sure yet if it's down to win 10's touchscreen implementation, or confined to Affininity Photo's, as I don't notice any frustration with Capture 1 Express Fuji, which is my raw developer; but hoping things might improve with time. One example being the add/subtract option for the selection brush - does nothing.

I use the selection and select a building, refine it, mask and apply. I check the mask and the building edges need work. It is a pain to use the brush to edit the masks building edges. Too many mistakes from unsteady hands trying to draw a perfect line along the building edge or portions of it. I have tried the PEN tool but found it is useless. All I get when I click for the second node is a curves something like a mask pops up above the layers. What am I doing wrong? Is there a special setting(s) in the pen tool? I have searched and watched many videos and I have not found how to draw a perfectly straight line using any tool for a mask. Is there one? I can not find any other way to communicate and get an answer. Great videos, easy to follow, good information in each one.

Thanks for the clear explanation. QUESTION: Can I use this technique to make a discontinuous selection (all the speech bubbles on each page of a 70-year-old scanned comic). I would rather not restart the process for each bubble. Is there perhaps a better tool or technique for discontinuous selection? Thank you again!

Have been a graphic artist for about 27 years and an Adobe PS user for 20 years. I am trying to decide if, when I get my new Mac Mini whether to stay with Adobe or switch over to Affinity. Ninety-five percent of my artwork involves pictures of antique classic cars. My artwork entails making "precise" selections of these type of cars...........and I mean PRECISE selections. This being said, where and how does Affinity Photo allow me (the artist) to "paint" a precise selection, indicated by actually painting with a brush and actually "seeing" a translucent colored overlay superimposed over the car (or any object) upon which I am painting? (in the old days, a rubylith). No, I do not want to rely on some computer algorithm to "try to determine" what I want selected (or NOT selected) - I want to be in TOTAL control of what gets selected and what doesn't! I don't want to rely on "marching ants" to show what's selected or what's not selected...........and also do not want to be confused by exactly what areas are the "selected areas" and what areas are the UN-selected areas. Frankly if Affinity doesn't allow what I need and want or doesn't intend to include such a essential feature, they will not get my business. Please tell me that with Affinity Photo, one can switch between a colored translucent mask and the marching ants so "the artist" and not some "algorithm" is in control of selections. Love the video - but disappointed with what I believe I'm seeing and hearing. Not you, the presenter's fault, rather, Affinity's shortcoming............

Many thanks for this clear explanation. I was also interested to see how you saved the selection in a spare chanel. However, one can use a selection to make a mask, and masks can also be saved and duplicated. Thus, I am curious as to the pros and cons of saving a selection and/or saving a mask?

Awesome, thankyou !!!! Where is the 2nd video you talked about, is there a link to it ?? Thanks from Canada !!

What happened at 6:01 happens to me all the time, it's a pity you can't adjust the tolerance. In any case, thanks for the tutorial, it was still useful :)

So I was playing with it. Then the right side with the layers and colors just disappeared and idk how to get it back. Do you have any idea how?

Nice. But is image that helps. Take a image that background is near as object..

Ah so it's not a mask it's a view, how confusing is it to call it that as it does'nt create a mask, makes you wonder who creates the UI for programs these days, at least you have made it clear that they labelled it wrong and should think of it as a quick view, I notice no one else has picked up on this in the comments below, so maybe a helping heads up for them, many thks for this.

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