Powerful Quick Mask Tricks, get better Results in Affinity Photo

Here are some powerful Quick Mask Tricks to get better Results in Affinity Photo. I show you how to make a quick selection, toggle the Quick Mask, explain the Quick Mask view modes, show you tricks how to resize the brush, zoom and move the canvas with simple hotkeys and much more.

00:00 Intro
01:24 Soft Edges Selection Brush
02:14 Shortcut Brush Size
02:50 Don't use Refine Selection
03:52 Toggle Quick Mask
04:33 Quick Mask Overlay Black White Transparent
05:19 Paint Brush to refine Mask
06:11 Toggle Color Black White
06:39 Zoom and move Image
07:33 Remove dark selection border

[sue_roe]

Grow & shrink! Thank you so much for this! I had a hard time lately with that darker edges.

[donaldmiller]

This is crazy! I was just trying to refine a selection yesterday and having no luck! This is great timing for me!

[TheMarkusVogt]

Zoom rectangle is very helpful and adds much to these ever magnificient and entertaining tutorials. Thanks a lot!

[mooganoid]

Great tutorial. I've been an Adobe user for decades and recently decided to jump ship to Affinity. Thanks for the short sharp lesson, you've saved me a lot of clicking! 😊

[brianbeevers]

Olivio: Thank you for your Affinity Photo videos. I do like the zoom rectangle, it is a great addition to your videos.

[tucsondavehayes]

This could be your best ever tutorial. I love the way you highlighted the tool and their modifiers. The rectangle is OK but really not needed(for me, anyway) as long as you continue to circle the items you have chosen. Now the video. Really excellent. You were direct and clear in the explanation of the short cuts you used and the fixing of the color on the border around the hand was genius! You are the best!!

[GavinBollard]

Your new zoom trick is great. No more squinting at the screen trying to figure out which icon you clicked.

[sandrasmith]

Good video and yes, love the zoom as well as the circle around the pointer. Sometimes instructors go so fast the viewer does not see where they are clicking and it is very annoying but this makes it clear. Wish more instructional Youtubers would do this.

[colemyst]

Love the zoom rectangle; it helps a lot when I'm trying to follow along is a smaller window while actually tying it out in Photo. To toggle from black to white or any chosen colour, I don't have to have to use the shift key and X; X works on its own. Maybe you have a more advanced version. This was a great help - I always have trouble with masks. This is going in my saved playlist.

[leolibbey]

Nice tutorial! So many points so I will probably have to watch it several more times to remember them all. Love the zoom feature! For some of us less experienced users, it would be helpful if you hesitated for just a second on clicks not zoomed so we can make sure which item you are clicking on.

[matthewcawson]

Great tutorial! This is one area I've struggled with. Love the rectangle and I will be using these awesome brush tricks. Thanks Olivio!

[Michael-qenh]

I have just been selecting then cutting/pasting it out into a new layer. But I see that the mask feature gives you a lot more freedom if you know how to use it properly! It will be a hard habit to break but think I'll start doing it like this. Thanks!

[ATLJB]

This is very helpful! I usually make a soft edge then blend it in or put a blur on the edge but this will save loads of time. Thanks Olivio!

[okiterukagetsu]

This is fairly comprehensive. I never thought of using Shrink/Grow for doing Brush tool corrections. I always get disappointed when I lose my crispy edges from making Pen tool selections in spots, but this allows more fine control it seems over the edges.

[JeffStudley]

You win the internet today, Olivio! That was great info, thank you.

[KathleenRenninger]

This was excellent! I had no idea these shortcuts & techniques existed. Thank you for sharing.

[KruMark]

Wow! you have been featured on an official Affinity Spotlight Blog, Congratulation Olivio!

[geri]

absolutely great (both: your explanation and Affinity Photo)

[erhardbatzdorf]

Großartig, eine saubere Auswahl ist absolut wichtig. Danke! Great, a clean selection is absolutely important. Thank you!

[epoelzl]

Vielen dank, für dieses hilfreiches video, Olivio!! Biss jetzt hat eine gute Auswahl gab mir immer Passformen!