Path linke in Photoshop

[sylviomr]

Hello, its new to me to work with Affinity Photo. Today i work only with Photoshop an now i have a question. Any people send me pictures with a path in the image. In Photoshop i can select the path and save this image with clipping path for using in Indesign. In AP i cant find this function or dosnt work AS with clipping path?

 

Thanks for the answers.

 

Greatings Sylvio

[Lee D]

Hi Sylvio,

 

Welcome to the forums.

 

If an image with an actual path, you can do the following to mask.

 

With your image open, you can use the Quick Mask option, then the Selection Brush to select your area. Then you click Quick Mask again to get your selection and use Layer > New Mask Layer.  Another option would be to use the Quick Selection tool, then Layer > New Mask Layer.

 

You can then save this as a .afphoto file or export as PNG for example.

 

If when you say "Path" you're referring to the path of a Pen Tool for example, then it's something different.

[MEB]

Hi sylviomr,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Do the following:

- create your path with the Pen Tool in Affinity Photo

- give it a fill (any colour will do) - this is important - the path must be filled

- drag the path layer over the thumbnail of the image layer you want to mask - you should see a small vertical blue line on the right of the thumbnail

- export your file as PSD 

It should now be imported in InDesign as you'd expect.