Pen path in Affinity Photo 2.4

[Gerard Designs]

Hello,   I did a pen path around a car to remove the background, once I select the path and make it into a selection the pen path disappears?

Is there a way to keep the path after making it a selection?

Thanks Gerard

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[walt.farrell]

If you make your path with the Pen Tool, and use the menu Select > Selection from Layer it should retain the path. (Alternatively, to delete it, you could use Select > Selection from Layer and Delete.) Note: make sure you assign some Fill to the path you create with the Pen Tool, or this will not work (at least in V2).

On the other hand, if you use the Selection button on the Pen Tool's Context Toolbar, I don't think you have that choice. Is that what you were doing?

[Gerard Designs]

Yes.  I will try it the first way you suggested.  Thank You

[Gerard Designs]

Hello,   I just made a new pen path around one of the windows on the car file and tried the Select>Select from layer, nothing happened. The only way I can get the marching ants from a pen path is to use the pen tool selection.  To keep the pen path I made an extra copy in the layers panel.  I wish there was a pen path panel.

Thanks Gerard

[MEB]

@Gerard Designs You have to fill the path with some colour for the app to have something to select.

[Gerard Designs]

Thanks that worked fine, I forgot about filling it with a color first.

Thanks Gerard