Gerard Designs Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 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 Car.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 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? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Designs Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Yes. I will try it the first way you suggested. Thank You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Designs Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 7 Staff Share Posted March 7 @Gerard Designs You have to fill the path with some colour for the app to have something to select. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Designs Posted March 7 Author Share Posted March 7 Thanks that worked fine, I forgot about filling it with a color first. Thanks Gerard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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