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Drag and drop layers inside the mask group.

Please provide an option to move layers inside the mask group.

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  • Jack Dyer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Come ON ADOBE! LOOK AT ALL THE DAMN COMMENTS AND JUST MAKE THIS A THING IN XD. For Goodness sake.

  • Marc Robinson commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is stupid!!!!!!! ITS 2022!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why is his not a thing yet!

  • Pumpernickel commented  ·   ·  Report

    It so so strange and tedious that you can't rearrange the order or layers while a mask is applied to them. Please fix this.

  • Duc Dao commented  ·   ·  Report

    Oh yeah, we definitely want it, thanks.
    Oh yeah and I'm keeping myself from pure rage.

  • Sponsi commented  ·   ·  Report

    OF COURSE we want this feature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Teunis commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is a must have for me. My productivity is actually going down (unmasking/remasking or just leave my layers a mess). This is frustrating enough to encourage my client to use another application when we collaborate.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ridiculous Adobe! It should have been a MUST HAVE feature long time ago, but still it's only a request.

  • Slava commented  ·   ·  Report

    Definitely need this feature, not sure why this limitation was placed in the first place. Why not allow drag and drop regardless of whether or not it is within a mask?

  • Solomon commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please make this work... You should be able to drag and image into an already existing mask, paste appearance doesn't work (at least in my case). I need to unmask > reorder my elements > and then apply mask again. Pretty ridiculous workflow if you ask me.

    Need to add a new/another image into a masked shape? Simple, expand the mask and drag where needed > Done. Use this flow, please.

    Thanks

  • nati commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why oh why, i cant simply drag layer from outside the masking group into the masking group.... i have first cut the layer, select masked group in layer panel and paste my element... and then struggle to reorganize in masked group my element... soooo... instead of 1 step like in illustrator, photoshop etc, im forced to do 3-4 steps extra... which sucks...

  • Matt Pearce commented  ·   ·  Report

    Kind of ironic that this is supposed to be an app to create a good user experience, yet fails to deliver a good user experience itself!

  • LORRAINE N commented  ·   ·  Report

    So really? you can't drag and drop layers inside a mask??? are you fu*&%ing kidding me??????? I'm going back to sketch. THere's way too many things that make XD a pain:
    1. no rulers or guides. why?
    2. cannot replace a symbol with another symbol.
    3. cannot click on an object (control click in sketch) to find it's layer
    4. cannot drag and drop layers inside a mask. absolutely nuts.
    I've only been working in XD for 1 day. Can't wait to see what else doesn't work. Come on Adobe!!!!

  • Paul Seymour commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, this makes ZERO SENSE.
    1) I should be able to just paste another object into the mask group, at any time
    2) I should be able to drag layers around inside the mask group, just like when they're not masked.

    What planet are your UX designers on? Seemingly, not this one 😓

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is lame beyond the acceptable. This is a *PAID* tool, for God's sake! It's S-U-P-E-R annoying to work with masking because this lame inability to move layers under a masking group.

  • Ken M. Haggerty commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ah — thanks Randy, just discovered that you can use the menu bar / keyboard shortcuts to rearrange layers inside a mask group or symbol. Seems unintuitive though that you can't do this using drag-and-drop in the layers panel.

  • AdminRandy Edmunds (Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Report

    > layers cannot be reorganized or reordered inside a mask group.

    Correct, layer order can not yet be changed in layers panel via drag/drop, but you can do this with commands in the Object > Arrange menu (on Mac) or the right-click > Arrange menu (on Windows) without un-masking and re-masking.

    Hope this helps,
    Randy

  • Yerom_D commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello Elaine, well i'll answer for now.
    To be more comprehensive, i also noticed that layers cannot be reorganized or reordened inside à mask group.
    (as it can be made in photoshop for example).
    To do so, i have to ungroup the mask, reorganize order element and make the mask again.
    It could be time winning to drag layers directly into the mask group.
    Thank you !

  • AdminRandy Edmunds (Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe) commented  ·   ·  Report

    > We need a "paste inside" feature where I can paste a shape inside another shape and it gets clipped on its bounding box.

    That functionality was added recently (sorry, I can't remember exact release number). Try this:
    1. Copy image
    2. Select shape in Adobe XD
    3. Paste Appearance (Cmd/Ctrl-Alt-V)

    Is that what you are looking for?
    Randy

  • Wiredframe commented  ·   ·  Report

    We need a "paste inside" feature where I can paste a shape inside another shape and it gets clipped on its bounding box. Thanks in advance.