Affinity Photo 101: Mask Basics in under 7 minutes

In today's Affinity Photo 2 tutorial, we'll be covering the basics of layer masking. We'll cover standard masks, inverted masks and luminosity range masks. Along the way, we'll show you how to achieve some cool image effects.

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This channel is designed for people who want to be able to learn Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo to create fun projects for personal use or to make money on the side. We'll try to show basic concepts that beginners can use right away to edit and improve their photos, make greeting cards, logos, business cards, promotional images, yard signs, flyers, invitations, artwork, YouTube Banners and Profile Pictures and a variety of other fun or lucrative projects.

This affinity photo tutorial is for amateur photographers who want to learn professional editing techniques.

I try to go over as many topics as I can in a concise and easy to understand way. Included in the many topics are: how to blend images in Affinity Photo, blending modes Affinity Photo, isolating images Affinity Photo, photo manipulation, painting, plug ins features, removing backgrounds Affinity Photo, working with perspective Affinity Photo, working with layers in Affinity Photo, how to use masks in Affinity Photo, enhancing RAW images in Affinity Photo, recording macros, special effects, lighting effects, working with curves, color adjustments, distorting images, colorizing photos, imbedding images into text, imbedding images into shapes, creating logos, removing blemishes, removing anything from pictures, making tee shirts, compositing, making greeting cards, making green screens, how to find free images, free music, free vector files, creating brushes, how to bend text around a curve and so much more.

I also will try to cover Affinity news and updates to new features, content and add-ons.

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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:27 - Standard layer masks
00:37 - Black & White Adjustment
01:53 - Erasing Mistakes
02:17 - Recolor Adjustment
02:43 - Inverted Mask
04:08 - Erasing Inverted Mistakes
04:28 - Luminosity Range Mask
05:41 - Compositing (Blending Images)
07:09 - Shameless ask for likes, subs and caffeine

[CleanSlateFarm]

Finally, someone explains masks in a way I can understand and use. Thank you!

[kspokermike]

Really enjoy your videos. Always something to learn with each video you publish. Keep up the great work!

[NMalteC]

Just hit the X key to switch between FG and BG colours

[simonj]

As always good info 😀Just one question, though - was there any reason for adding an extra mask to the eye instead of using the one already in the recolour adjustment? Thanks again, I really enjoy your videos!