danlb46

I've used 'path from selection' (or just 'make work path') in Photoshop for a long time. I've been a Photoshop user for over 25 years, and creating a path, which is vector-based, allows you to save it (and name it for future reference), then click on its name in the paths listing (which then activates it as a selection). You can then modify that selection, feather it, etc. Plus you can add other paths to it to create larger selections. It's an essential way to work for retouching and compositing. This would be a necessity in Affinity Photo for it to attain stature alongside Photoshop. I can't believe Affinity Photo does not yet have this capability.

I use Adobe Creative Cloud apps, and to import an InDesign file to Affinity Publisher, you first have to convert it from .indd to .idml while in InDesign. Affinity Publisher cannot handle an .indd file format, but there are other non-Adobe apps that can. What I find curious is that the .idml format is so old: it was used in the Adobe CS4 suite and dates from 2008.

Wondering just why you have to convert the files to .idml: the file format was from Adobe CS4, which is now close to 15 years ago.