Testing a Clipping Path

Question

After I've completed a clipping path, how do I know if it works?  How can I test it?

Barb Binder · Accepted Answer

Hi, right now its going to be in Word as we don't have InDesign. The issue I'm having is that the image of the tool in PS has a brown background and I just want to copy the tool and paste it in Word to test and see if the clipping path worked. Its not letting me take or copy of the image of the tool by itself.

Its not letting me take or copy of the image of the tool by itself.

Hi Michael:

After you complete the path, double click the words "work path" and give it a name. Then click the dotted line circle at the bottom of the Paths panel to load the path as a (marching ants) selection. Once it is a selection you can copy it, but use Ctrl/Cmd J to jump it to a new layer (it's variation on Edit > Copy).

Once it's on its own layer, Trevor has given you a few ways to test it. For the Word test, I would go with his .png suggestion. Hide the original layer and use File > Export > Export As to save a copy as a.png file.

~Barb

Trevor.Dennis · Answer

What are you using it for?

If to cut out an object, then you can Ctrl click the path to make it a selection, and copy the object's layer to a new layer.

Place a layer beneath the copy and fill with white, and look for edge problems. Then invert the white layer to black, and check again.

You can use the same trick on the cutout by deleting the selection, and looking for areas that should have been selected.

Or you could just zoom in and pan around the clipping path and make corrections, which is what I suspect most of us do.

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