P: Grouping layers clipped in a clipping mask.

Has anyone experimented with "knockout" layers? Not sure if it really solves the issue, but you can put a layer of any type above your other layers in a group and have its shape essentially be a free-floating mask layer.
1. rt click on layer and hit "Blending Options..."
2. in Advanced Blending change Knockout to "shallow" (it only knocks out within the containing group)
3. Set fill opacity to 0% (this is important... knockout effect is controlled by fill) or nothing happens
4. Paint into the layer or make a mask and paint that...

It's reverse of regular masking... more opaque pixels "knock out" (erase) more.

Advantages over masks and clipping masks are that these layers can be moved around within the groups, have multiple overlapping, and affected by layer comps more easily ( have 3 different shapes and toggle between them in comps!)

Here's a... really eye-peelingly ugly example!

This is still a needed function. I like to draw my shapes in Illustrator and transfer over to PS for shading. I end up shading every shape with a minimum of 2 layers and as many as 10. Having a clipping train gets cluttered very quickly. Creating folders with clipping masks loses the ability to preview the base shape, with color.  I even made an action converting a shape to a masked folder, but still, none of these workarounds would compare to just being able to group and clip shading to a layer.

Upvoooooote!

I agree that this would be a huge help.

There has been multiple ocassions where I would have loved to have this feature but instead was forced to use clunky workarounds and manually create masks. This works but you lose a lot of flexibility when you want to make changes to the base layer.

Please implement this!

This would be hugely helpful. The use case I have in mind is for animation when you want to overlay light or shadows on an object.

Upvote! Need this.

i am also in need of this feature in photoshop
there have been several times where i needed to clipping mask a group into a layer and have had to kind of do double duty fixing a layer mask for a group with items clipped within and then editing a layer or group of layers under it with the same type of result

just the thought of being able to nest the group within a layer and use that one layer of pixel data to do what i need to do would be phenomenal

there is some need for this so if you would be ever so inclined to take our request into consideration, that would be awesome!!!

love peace and photoshop 

I am still Very surprised this is not a feature yet, to be able to clip a group to the layer underneath it is almost a standard with any other art program.
 

a example of this is in Manga studio/Clip studio paint



 

 

Where you can take the contents of the entire folder and use the folder itself to clip on to the layer below. Easy,

while still being able to edit the layers inside the folder without having to go out of your canvas like you have to when you use a smart object. Simple to use, and VERY handy for when you want to do editing on any of the layers.

 

This is a extremely important feature for Concept artists like me because it allows us to clip color groups onto grayscale value drawings.

having the ability to clip a group to the layer below will also create less mess, currently right now i have to clip each layer individually to my greyscale drawing. sometimes between 10-20 layers just floating around. this makes it difficult to add effects because if you break that chain then it wont show anything above it.

 

The only ways of doing this at the moment are very cumbersome and time wasting, either you have to make a group into a "smart Object" and then clip that, (The problem with this is if you want to quickly edit something in that it takes you out of your canvas, so you have no idea where the rest of the image is)





(when you edit a "smart Layer")



 

or set up a "Action set" where you put a layer mask of the selected layers below. ( the problem with this is if you do any editing to the layer you are "clipping" to, the Mask on the folder doesn't change with it, and it has to be reapplied manually.)





(when you need to edit the layer below, it doesn't change the layer mask)



 

Please adobe, this is a much needed feature for a LOT of people like me, all the people at my school agree that it should be a feature.

 

I hope that the examples and arguments make it clear of what we want for this clipping feature.

It would be really great to be able to apply clipping masks on groups.

In other words a group could be clipped by the layer (whatever its type, even if it is another group) below it and on which it is associated.

This would be very consistent with the behaviors already existing regarding the clipping masks and would be so much helpful!

Do we have news on this important topic?
Would be really useful!