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Pen Tool/Creating a Path/Make into a Selection


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Trying too hard to stay away from Photoshops terminology with tools and such.

I just used the pen tool to create a path..... but......

In Photoshop, it was easy, go to layers, select Path tab, then Make Selection

Can't find how to make my Path a selection and I want the selection to be on my image not on another layer.

I'm in limbo until I can figure out how to make my path a selection. Is that even an option?

 

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It is also worth exploring the Mask option. Unlike Selection, it does not Rasterize the path, so it is non-destructive. I like making selections with the pen tool but nearly always Mask so I can edit later as it retains all the advantages of vector (clipping) paths.

 

When you make a Selection, Affinity deletes your path and that's it. You just end up with a piece of mostly uneditable pixel data and would have to start again. If you do make a Selection, I recommend you at least make a copy of your path first.

 

With Mask, you can still edit the path later with the node tool, move the selection, resize it, and so forth. You can even add a feathered edge and adjust the feather size later or remove it..

 

The first picture is a path with a feather applied. The second picture is the same path, modified later with the feather removed. You couldn't do anything like that with a selection!

 

curve 1.jpg

 

curve 2.jpg

Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.

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