What are these for anyways? Plus Clipping masks

@bleke could you compile all what you have learn about clipping and masking in a dedicated tutorial post? That way people have a place to reference from. You can also link that thread to this one so users can find it if they have the same question.

I suppose so. I don’t think I’m quite the right person to do so, given my limited understanding of the subject.

But I could provide a first draft, then other people could correct and add to it.

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Am I correct in assuming that MyPaint places all layers and groups in a group that is invisible to the user?

So what’s there when you start up MyPaint is this:

[invisible group]
 |-layer
 |-background

And if you add a group with some layers in it it would be like this:

[invisible group]
 |-[group]
 |  |-layer
 |  |-layer
 |  |-layer
 |-layer
 |-background

Yeah if that group’s visibility is off, all layers and groups within are also hidden.

I read this post, and made a quick try. Then I thought someone else might find it useful, so decided to share:

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