#PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK PRO#
#PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK WINDOWS#

Palettes are streamlined, subdued, and black, and do not distract from the canvas.

#PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK PRO#

What's happening here? Why is this not working? (I'm using Pixelmator Pro v1.7.1 Sequoia.One of the first things you notice about Pixelmator is that the interface is incredibly clean and fluid. However, whether I swap the layers or not, I do not get the result shown in the screenshots. The image in the tutorial now shows that the layers have swapped (mine did not) and the tutorial says, 'Notice how the contents of the layer above are clipped to the shape of the layer below.' That implies that I need to swap the layers.ДҐ. Right-click / control-click the new layer and choose Create Clipping Mask.Д¤. Add a new ellipse (a circle, actually) and it appears above the photo in the Layer List.ДЈ. In simpler terms, if you create a clipping mask from a circle and clip a photo to it, any parts of the photo outside the circle will be hidden.ДЄnd that is exactly what I want! (I mean that literally - I want a circle as a clipping mask.)Дў. When you create a clipping mask, any transparent areas of the clipping mask layer will mask out those same areas of any layers вЂclippedвЂ™ to it. *or Cmd-click on the thumbnail in the layers palette. I wonder if anyone else has a neater way of doing this. Move the shape above the clipping mask pair and style appropriately. Format > Convert into Shape to turn the selection into a shape.Д¤. Edit > Load Selection* to turn the layer into a selection.ДЈ. Choose the lower layer in the layers panel.Дў. If the lower layer is already a shape, just copy it, move the copy and style appropriately. My go-to would be to create a shape that holds just the border and place it above the clipping mask pair. Unfortunately, (at time of writing) Pixelmator Pro doesn't allow styles to be applied to groups.

I think that the logical place to style this would be to group the two layers and style the resulting group. The bottom layer has the shape you want but any style you put here has the colour information of the top layer applied to it afterward. In a clipping mask, the bottom layer provides the opacity and the top layer the colour. Then, you can select multiple vector points and manipulate them as you wish.

#PIXELMATOR LAYER MASK WINDOWS#

If you then want to edit the windows separately, you can select the window shape in the Layers sidebar, Control-click it in the canvas and choose Make Editable (a quicker way to do this is to double-click the house, then double-click the window). Screenshot below:ДЄfter doing this, select both the new window shape and the house shape in the Layers sidebar (make sure the window is above), Control-click either layer and choose Subtract Shapes. You'd need to do this before combining the house and window shape, so it should not be inside any nested shape. To do that, select all four in the Layers sidebar, Control-click one, and choose Unite Shapes. First, you'd need to create one window shape from the four window squares. Or is there already a obvious way to do that I missed again? in the house of st3f up there: put all window-squares in one group, then mark the group and the path and cut all the squares out with one click on substract. Now dear Wizards behind Pixelmator, since I'm here anyway: this would be perfect if it would work on Layer-Groups too. Thank you very much for pointing out what now seems so obvious.

Pixelmator layer mask