Provide layer/filter masking activating/deactivating

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Fernando Ariznavarreta

• April 17, 2018 19:36

Please provide a way to activate and deactivate the mask of a layer and filter.

 

When you are generating your mask and painting on it, it helps a lot to see the effects you are obtaining and to see if you are generating halos or other undesired effects.

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  Angela Andrieux

  • April 18, 2018 00:02

  Hi Fernando,

  You can toggle the visibility of a mask by clicking on the Visibility icon on the masking toolbar. It looks like an eye.

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  Fernando Ariznavarreta

  • April 18, 2018 08:58

  Amgela, I am not talking about layer visibility, but activating or deactivating the mask associated with a layer or a filter.

  In PS you can have a laye visible and activate or deactivate its mask.

   

  That is of great help in seeing how your mask developes and if the filter or changes produce undesired effects due to the mask you are creating or not (a too steep transition in your mask can produce halos for example if you adjustment in the filter is too strong).

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  Tim Trim

  • April 18, 2018 10:25

  That doesn't make sense in Luminar - if you have created a layer and added a mask layer then toggle visibility as suggested.

  This equally applies to a filter if a filter mask is applied.

  Either you are adjusting the whole image or a portion of it via a mask.

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  Julia Kot

  • April 18, 2018 14:19

  Have you tried to undo the applied changes using History Panel? 

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  Fernando Ariznavarreta

  • April 19, 2018 10:00

  Thank you, Julia.

  That may be a work around to see the effects if editing the mask is the last thing you did.

  But it is of no help if you edit your mask in several steps and do other things between them.

  @TIm:

  it does the same sense that it has in Photoshop: quickly seeing the difference between applying the effect to the hole image or the masked zones.

  IT helps seeing if your mask produces undesired effects or if you are smoothing the effect enough.

  Changing visibility only shows the difference between applying or not the filter to the masked zones, which a different thing.

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  Tim Trim

  • April 20, 2018 02:55

   

  So you want a toggle between a filled layer mask across the whole image and the drawn mask?

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  Sherwood Botsford

  • April 26, 2018 21:24

  I think he wants to toggle between NO mask and whole image.

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  Angela Andrieux

  • April 27, 2018 02:32

  Hi Fernando,

  I think this is what you are looking for? On the layer with the mask, click the Brush icon and choose brush to activate the mask. You can then navigate to the visibility icon on the masking toolbar and toggle it to view and hide the mask.

  

  Please let me know if that helps!

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