selection to vector path

[kirk23]

Photoshop has this feature working pretty nicely. Not perfect but ok.    Would love to see it in  APhoto too .   Sometimes masking is  easier to manage with vector shape

[loukash]

11 hours ago, kirk23 said:

Sometimes masking is  easier to manage with vector shape

Then simply begin with a vector shape. Then you can always convert it to a selection or a maks if needed.

11 hours ago, kirk23 said:

Would love to see it in  APhoto too

My gut feeling is that it will eventually come along with the ADe "vectorizer" tool that we're all eagerly waiting for since years.

[kirk23]

17 hours ago, loukash said:

Then simply begin with a vector shape.

Yeah. It's exactly what I often do but isn't it cooler to  just get a rough vector shape first and then  tweak few nodes and corners .  Photoshop is  good for that contrary to many vectorizers   that do a mess of nodes from everything.    

Better thing I ever used was only former Imagaro  or Graphic Tracer .    I stopped to pay their subscription  because Photoshop selection to path + its "match font"+ huge free font collection  is kind of enough for me. 

Still APhoto is so much better to work with vector masks  because  you see the transform gizmo only around the object you are working with, not the whole masked layer.   In Photoshop it's so annoying 

[MEB]

Hi kirk23,
It's also quicker to start with/generate a selection automatically then simply adjust the paths as needed after converting it, than to create the paths from scratch specially with complex objects. This is logged as an improvement but i have no idea if or when will be implemented.

[loukash]

2 minutes ago, MEB said:

This is logged as an improvement

Good news!

3 minutes ago, MEB said:

to create the paths from scratch specially with complex objects

A very "quick'n'dirty workaround" would be switching to Designer and drawing the rough path with the Pencil tool.
A curve cleanup with the Node tool will then work the same back in Photo as well.