The first build of seeing a mask showed the selected layer's, in one global
style, from a strip at the top of the panel. It answered the wrong question and
answered it somewhere nobody looked. What a photographer asks of two masks is
how they meet — where the sky's edge sits against the building's — and that
needs both on screen at once, in colours that can be told apart.
So each row of the stack has an eye, drawn in the colour its mask is shown in,
and each mask has six swatches to choose that colour from. Several can be open
at once; a new one comes up open, in the first colour nothing else is using.
The style — tint, alpha, outline — is the one setting that stays global, above
the stack, because three styles at once are three pictures that cannot be read
against each other. Alpha now draws every shown mask, each in its colour, on
black. In the pipeline a `Reveal` is a list of `(layer, colour)` rather than
one layer, and every reveal block carries its own colour.
The brush moves too. Select, Paint and Erase and the three sliders under them
sat at the top of the panel, appeared only once a row was selected, and said
nothing about which mask they acted on — so "how do I paint" and "how do I
correct the model's outline" both had the same answer and nobody found it.
They sit under the selected mask's parts now, beside the swatches, and on a
subject or a category the hint says what a stroke there does: it becomes a
part of this mask, joined to the model's, and can be taken out again.
Eyes and colours are viewing state, on the session and not on the layer, so a
photograph reopened has every eye closed — the stored-mask round-trip test
asserts it.
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