Want to learn more about how Affinity Designer works? Check out my Affinity Designer Master Class – a comprehensive series of over 60 videos where I go over every tool, feature and function and explain what it is, how it works, and why it’s useful. The Mesh Warp Tool allows you to distort an image (or portion of an image) using a highly customizable grid comprising of nodes and lines. Ig you have any questions, or if any part of this lesson was unclear, simply leave a comment below. Knowing how to work with these clipping paths, though, can help take your designs to the next level by allowing you to incorporate raster imagery into your vector artwork. Seeing as how there’s no menu item for it in the toolbar, it may lead users to believe that it’s not an included feature. Making a clipping mask in Affinity Designer is a simpler process than it typically is in other vector design applications. This will release your clipping mask, setting you back to where you initially started: Click to enlarge Conclusion Locate the clipped layer in the group (at the bottom,) right-click it and select Release. To release your clipping mask, simply click the arrow next to the layer group to expand it. Or in other words, you can easily undo them layer onto if need be. One of the benefits of working with clipping masks is that they’re non-destructive. Release A Clipping Mask with Affinity Designer The two layers will be group together into a single layer group, and you will have effectively created a clipping path: Applying the text as a clipping path forced the image on the layer beneath it to take its shape. As you do so, you should notice the subject taking the shape of the clip: Thanks to the simplicity of how this feature works, all you have to do to create a clipping mask with Affinity Designer is simply click and drag the bottom layer onto the top layer. In my example, the text (labeled as “ (Curves)“) is going to be used as the clipping mask, so I have it positioned above the image’s layer. Once you’ve identified an object to be used as a clipping path and a subject to be clipped, navigate over to the Layers menu to make sure that the clip layer is positioned above the layer you plan to clip: Step 2: Move The Subject Layer Onto The Clip Layer Refer to the video tutorial if you’d like to see how this was done. It is recommended that you reduce the transparency partially so you can see where clip lines up with the subject: Click to enlargeĪs you can see in the above screenshot, I manually drew in some additional shapes in order to create the effect that the subject is jumping out from the text once it is clipped. Place the object that will be used as the clipping mask (in this instance, the text) over the subject you’d like to clip. For this demonstration, I’ll be creating a clipping mask with text using the follow image: Click to enlarge In order to create a clipping path with Affinity Designer, we first need two objects to work with. I wish I could show you the tutorial but it's not in a free plataform so I don't think it's legal, but it's not group the layers, she wants to change the colors of two elements in a safe way, she creates a new layer above the one she wants to affect and clicks Alt and then she uses the brushes in that one new layer and she does the same thing in the curves.Step 1: Identify The Layer You’d Like To Use For The Mask I wish I could explain it better but english is not my first language so I get confused and don't want to confuse youīut the basic is that she clicks 'alt' to link the layers and the brush painting only affect those 2 layers linked, so she can paint the curves (smart vector/tracing) in a new layer that is linked with the curves, when I create a new layer and group with the curves or the layer that I want to paint on photo it paints everything and not only the two selected layers. So without being able to view the tutorial you're referring to, I'm going guess when the instructor says to link the layers, just Group them. What is the result when you Group layers in Affinity? You can move and resize among other things, several layers together. Also in Designer, there's Layer layers, which are similar to a Group, but you can also Group the Layer layers.Įasiest way to answer this, is what do you achieve, what's the result of Linking layers in PS? You can move, resize, several layers together without having to merge or flatten them. Welcome to the forum what I can recall about PS, Linked Layers are the same as Groups in Affinity Photo and Designer.
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