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jjwithers
Inspiring
April 9, 2011
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P: Ability to delete multiple paths

  • April 9, 2011
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Why can't you delete more than one path at a time? You can do this with Channels and layers... the path palette hasn't changed in ages.

66 replies

Inspiring
June 1, 2011
Sorry it was just a correction, but I was trying to figure out if this was really lost functionality or not. As it is, just selecting multiple paths at a time will require a lot of changes to the application code.
Inspiring
June 1, 2011
Chris, thank you for your response.

You are correct. I got so much used to the the option of selecting multiple items on Layer and Channel palates, I for a moment 'blended' my recollection with the reality.

I have been a professional Photoshop user since 2.0 (1991) and some of my memories are easily fogged by the number of tremendous improvements that happened to this program since that single layer program.

Yes, that is correct, there was no multiple Path deletion option in previous versions, however - for several releases there was certain flexibility in Paths operations that did not carry to the latest versions.

- paths could be simply combined by dragging their icons on top of each other

- parts of a path could be transformed from one Path to another the same way

- and I believe to create a new path in a path palate - Working Path could be dragged from the Work area directly onto the Paths palate..

There was more, but I can't remember now. I recall I was displeased that the consequent version discontinued this great flexibility and there was virtually no way to communicate the frustration. Then we did not have such a great way to communicate with the Adobe Photoshop developers team as we thankfully have today.

I am sorry for confusing the readers here and thanks to Chris for correcting me. I appreciate your feedback.
Inspiring
June 1, 2011
Photoshop has never supported multiple path selection, and thus couldn't support multiple path deletion. I think you're thinking of another application.
Inspiring
June 1, 2011
An excellent point Joshua. Many versions ago, Photoshop allowed multiple path deletion and other very useful operations like combining paths by simply 'dragging' their icons in Path Palate on top of each other etc...

I agree, Adobe should look into this.
Inspiring
May 4, 2011
Should also be able to delete Paths via the Save dialog, like we can for Alpha Channels and Layers.
Inspiring
May 4, 2011
And I want to be able to make groups in paths and alpha channels!
and a scroll in path.