Child Layers EXPLAINED - Affinity Photo Tutorial

[@mtntopviking]

Thank you for the tutorial. If I watch it 8 or 9 more times I should have it locked into my brain! I love your lessons. I learn so much from them. So far I have 356 of your tutorials saved in a library so I can go back to them anytime. Thank you so much!

[@barrygaunt8751]

I thought I knew about child layers, this showed me how much I didn’t know. Excellent tutorial.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you. Happy I could give you some extra insights 😀

[@pafcaf]

Excellent!! I'm having a heck of a time transitioning from PS to Affinity, so I'm very thankful for your videos.

[@daddisky]

happy birthday Dr. King Shultz thank you for the wonderful tutorials.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much :)

[@JurekMG]

You mentioned this in your tutorials and live streams. But now you have gathered everything in one place, which will definitely make learning easier for beginners. It will also be useful for the more advanced as a systematized reminder. Thanks Olivio!

[@thomastuorto9929]

I had to stop at 6:14. I'm lost. I tried reshaping my upper layers & it seems to resize the backround too (1 of my images). I tried creating fill layers, importing another imageusing place= nada. No luck. I would need to see from the beginning how everything is done, not with all the layers there. I don't create art, I just edit images doing some light object removal, cloning, & maybe changed a sky once using , File, Place & a brush once to try a while back & can't even remember if I used an erase brush, etc.=lost.

[@thomastuorto9929]

WHEW,, Got it!!! Had to open a new image, go to the layers panel, copy, go back to the original image -layers panel paste & move the layers around. I had to go back & forth from AP to this vid to get it. Thanks Olivio! And I'm only at 6 min. Back to the vid.

[@OlivioSarikas]

awesome, ted! good to see you found your answer with hard work and dedication 😀

[@thomastuorto9929]

@@OlivioSarikas Pausing your video , going back & forth got me there. If I do it a little more, I'll probably catch on. If I don't do it for a couple of months, I'll have to start over again. Maybe I'll try & play with it a little this week. Thanks.

[@alainadamski7703]

Indispensable for those who didn't know it, thanks to you I've known it for a long time now. Thank you Olivio, it was perfect.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you 😀 Yes, I already talked about this in my Live Streams I think 😍👍

[@garreswe]

This is a great video! Every AP user should watch it.

[@raquelbigby5501]

Thank you Olivio, you answered my questions about child layers that I have been confused about.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Happy I could help you 👍

[@sandrasmith2137]

This clearly explained a lot of my confusion about child layers I was having. Now I know what is going on, why and how to manipulate layers to get what I want. Thank you.

[@OlivioSarikas]

My pleasure :) Share it with others who might be confused, if you can 😀👍

[@Francesca48]

Thanks Olivio..never realised there were short blue liens before. Really helpful tutorial.

[@shahidmir106]

You are wonderful Olivio. Thanks for all your hardwork.

[@ptst19]

Thank you, one of the best of your tutorials. Relatively short and focused on one matter only. I watched it with pleasure, learnt a lot and saved it for reference. Not always possible with your tutorials. Thank you.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, really nice to get your feedback 😀

[@BZROMULAN]

Thanks Olivio for the distinctions & explanations

[@OlivioSarikas]

My pleasure

[@chrispf8554]

Omg finally i know whats the difference with those blue lines xD always wondered why i sometimes got a different effect

[@elizabethrussell4858]

This is brilliant, I have been clipping photos to a mask the wrong way. What a great video very enlightening.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome, happy I could help you improve your technique 😀

[@manuelremusstanca5539]

Hi Olivio, could you make something similar about Channels (what they are, how to use them, what they useful for, and so on). Thx

[@OlivioSarikas]

good idea :)

[@jerrywall8878]

Great and helpful insights here. Thank you much!

[@alessandrociampi1811]

you are fantastic inteaching affinity tutorial

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much, my friend. 😀

[@massimo-luppi]

Hello Olivio. I want to thank you kindly for your amazing channel and videos. They are helping me tremendously in improving my photo manipulation skills with Affinity Photo. I'll put them to use for my KZbin channel and relative social media profiles, as well as to create covers for my books. Hope this doesn't sound rude, but how come you don't have any courses on Udemy? It's a great platform, and you would have your first customer right here! 🙂

[@dennisballester3935]

Very good tutorial 👍 as your usual very intuitive thanks

[@OlivioSarikas]

My pleasure! 😀

[@crashalot63]

Great tutorial - lots of "ahhaaa" moments!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome, that's the way my tutorials should be 🙂

[@crashalot63]

@@OlivioSarikas Your tutorials are great! I just wish my own "internal harddrive" was bigger and a bit faster... ;-)

[@dpixvid]

Very enlightening! Thanks 👍

[@OlivioSarikas]

My Pleasure 😀

[@alnwick00]

Very Informative video. Thank You.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome 👍

[@markoehlschlager3862]

Very helpful. I find that Serif do not have a very clear way of referring to the two types of layers. Is one a "child" layer and the other a "mask" layer? Are they both "child" layers but with different behaviors? Serif do not speak clearly about this. Here are my take aways: 1. When the content of a layer is positioned as a "child" (long bar, not a "mask") layer, it is the "parent" layer that clips the boundaries of the "child". 2. When the content of a layer is positioned as a "mask" (short bar, not a "child") layer, it is the "mask" layer that clips the boundaries of the "parent" layer. 3. When the content of a layer is positioned as a "mask" (short bar, not a "child") layer, any alpha transparency values of the "mask" layer content have an effect on the transparency of the "parent". This alpha information could be from a gradient with transparency, as you illustrated, or even from a Blend Range curve adjustment to the "mask" layer content.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Many thanks! Yes, they really need to phrase that better. All these term like "child", "nesting", "clipping" are pretty confusing

[@nzedsurfer]

Thankyou so appreciated as a beginner. So frustrating trying to learn this before.

[@thomastuorto9929]

you can do this now? How do you get the different size layers without resizing your backround? I can't.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You’re welcome 😊

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi ted, what do you mean by that?

[@thomastuorto9929]

@@OlivioSarikas by what. going thru the vid. I'm only at 12 min. Haha. All this us new to me. I usually just us AP for object removal from photos with the impainting tool & some touch up with maybe the cloning tool. I'm not sure what your asking about.

[@thomastuorto9929]

@@OlivioSarikas Also with the mask I have a commercial fishing port seen & made a fog rolling in look with a gradient while watching this vid. Playing around. Had to start over a couple of times. At first I couldn't figure how you got every thing into the layers panel. Like more than one photo. moving along a little now but very slowly. will try moving thru the rest of the video now.

[@kdeuler]

Very helpful, thanks!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Glad it was helpful! 😀

[@fitzmauriceworks]

Very useful. thanks so much

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome! 😀

[@ThePaddlefoot]

Masks give me a fit, this clears up a lot of confusion I had. Thanks.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Happy I could help you, my Friend :)

[@wrzlbrnth4092]

how does this work with adjustment layers or live filters with photos. I think you used only vector based layers in your analysis.

[@johnsampson4950]

I cannot see any blue lines. Is this because I have AFP 2 rather than 1?

[@bgtubber]

Child layers is something that I don't use very often, but I should.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Yes, totally. They are very important and hugely effective :)

[@Windsurfing345]

To move a picture inside a mask, you can also clic the Lock child button at the top.

[@Vinterbukser]

Is that not what Olivio covers at 14:40 ?

[@Windsurfing345]

@@Vinterbukser you're right, i have not seen this part.

[@loradio537]

Now, what is the difference in using adjustment layers clipped or in the alpha mask?

[@OlivioSarikas]

As far as i can tell, it doesn't have any effect on adjustment layers. If it does, I will do a update Video

[@myqaveli]

so is it like a clipping mask?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Yes, that's what it does :) But also the other stuff I show in the Video :)

[@sdhute]

I have many brushes however no paint brush shows up in my affinity photo. I'm using the latest version

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Steve, what do you mean by that? The brush tool, or a "paint" brush tip?

[@sdhute]

@@OlivioSarikas there is not a paint brush tip in the list

[@OlivioSarikas]

@@sdhute check the brushes tab. there is a pop-down menu with categories where you can find all kinds of tips for different dry and wet paint styles. however, Affinity Photo does not simulate oil paint or the flow of water paint. So they are mainly tip shapes