Discrete Masks for Layers

[neonnoodle]

The stencil system is good for "temporary" masking -- if I want to fill or draw inside/outside the masked area, and then shut the stencil off. But this is not as strong as having layer masks which are permanently applied to a layer or group! Including, allowing one layer's clipping mark to apply to some layer you choose, but not all of them.

If I'm coloring a character, I may want to separate out the clipping masks of each part, and then do multiple layers for each masked part. In TVPaint, this requires me to turn the stencil on and off, and switch which layer is acting as the stencil every time I move from part to part. In most other image software, you mask off a layer and then group additional layers with it, so they all inherit the underlying layer's mask. When you choose another layer, that layer's mask automatically goes along with it. You don't need to select it.

[Fabrice]

I'm not sure to get the idea. (clipping mark ?)

Please can you post a picture or exemple ?

[neonnoodle]

I'm not sure to get the idea. (clipping mark ?)

Please can you post a picture or exemple ?

Whoops, that should say, clipping mask, not mark.

When I select a layer to work on in Photoshop, I don't have to worry about selecting/deselecting its stencil. Also, I don't have to make a layer whose edges define the boundaries of the stencil - I can draw a mask which has nothing to do with any other layer.

[slowtiger]

I can draw a mask which has nothing to do with any other layer.

And what hinders you to do the same in TVP? Only that it's not called mask, but layer.