Path to Selection workflow in Photo

[cekuhnen]

In Photoshop you can draw you path and create a selection based on it or fill stroke the path and you keep the Path.

 

When you do this in Affinity Photo the path is gone. Is there a way to keep the path by default? Otherwise this is very labor intensive

when you have to always make a copy of the path first.

[MEB]

Hi cekuhnen,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Other than doing a copy, currently there's no way to keep the path after you convert it to a selection.

I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section.

[Paul Bravery]

Thanks, MEB.

 

When I noticed this, as a workaround, I immediately duplicated the path layer so that I could convert it to a selection without losing the original path. I then hid the path layer when I had no further use for it.

That is how I produced my avatar that I use in this forum.

Paul.

[Peter Werner]

Provided that your path has a fill assigned, you can Cmd+Click it in the Layers panel to load it as a selection. Unlike clicking the "Selection" button in the Pen tool's options bar, this keeps the original path.

 

However, it would of course be nice to have a modifier key in the future so that Option+Click on the "Selection" button would keep the original path (in true Mac fashion, it would be awesome if holding down the Option key would toggle the button label in real time, like menu items do).

[MEB]

That feature is supposed to load a selection from layer's contents, not exactly converting a path to a selection, but works nicely in this case. Nice tip Peter.