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February 18, 2014

P: Multiple paths deselect when you convert them to a selection

  • February 18, 2014
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The behaviour of paths appears to have changed in Adobe CC. Before if you had 10 separate closed paths on path layer and you select one of the paths to convert it to a selection. After you pressed the 'convert path to selection button' all of the selected paths would stay selected and all of the other paths on that path layer would stay visible.

Since Adobe CC, now when you carry out the above process and once you click the 'convert path to selection button' it deselects all of the selected paths and all of the other paths are no longer visible meaning you have to go back to the path palette, re-select the path layer and then reselect all of the paths again.

This wastes a massive amount of time because what if the purpose of converting a group of selected paths was so that I can then apply a stroke to them? I now have to go back to the paths palette, select the path layer and then re-select all of the paths so that I can apply the stroke. That becomes a serious issue when you have 40 paths that you want to stroke. Why has this behaviour been changed? It worked perfectly before. Please can someone explain why the paths behaviours have been tampered with and whether anything is going to be done to fix this problem. It is seriously upsetting my work flow.

There is already a topic on this issue on the Adobe Community PS forum here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/61091...

Regards

An extremely frustrated technical illustrator.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 30, 2017
    Just to confirm, the "load path as a selection" button at the bottom of the path panel does not do the trick? Only other idea I have might be that the "Path Operations" is not set to "combine shapes" and the selection is inversed, etc.
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 30, 2017
    I have just spent a long time creating meticulous separate multiple pen paths in the expectation that I could make a single selection from them. I have spent several frustrating hours and tried everything I can think of without any success. I have found no solutions online.

    I'm not sure this is the issue being discussed as I have never tried this before. It just seemed like a logical thing to try with the new curvature pen tool that makes creating pen paths so much easier.

    I have just one layer and 25 paths. If I shift-click the oaths, they appear on the layer and I can select all the paths using the Path Selection Tool. If I turn off the visibility of the layer I see all the paths.

    I just can't turn them into a selection... 

    Anyone know of a solution?
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    graphicshampeng
    Participant
    October 20, 2017
    After you draw all the paths,  in the path panel click off the path then back on the path then click the selection tool.
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    vertizonphoto1
    Participating Frequently
    October 19, 2017
    Well, unless I'm doing it wrong (which is possible, but I'm just doing what I've done for years), it still doesn't work. I lost this functionality a while ago though, and just updated this am. Still no worky. I had to make multiple selections, one at a time, on a mask, which is incredibly inefficient for commercial retouching.  Hoping it's just me and it miraculously starts working again before my next need. 
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    J453
    Legend
    October 19, 2017
    This issue should be fixed in the latest release of Photoshop CC: https://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2017/10/get-the-goods-announcing-updates-to-photoshop-cc-dimension...
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    eyeartxx
    Participating Frequently
    October 19, 2017
    I just upgraded to PS CC 2018 on Windows 10, and it seems that the issue has been addressed!  I was working with multiple paths yesterday as a test, and the path panel retains the paths and you can 'add to' and 'subtract from' the active selections. The paths stay available.  Let me know if any of you have a similar experience.  My workflow just got re-streamlined!
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    vertizonphoto1
    Participating Frequently
    October 19, 2017
    OK - I am now recently experiencing this. I used to be able to make multiple paths on an image, create a new work path, then simply CMD click on it and make it an active selection. Now they just disappear when I do that and I cannot make them active selections AT ALL. And I'm in the middle of a composite for a client. 
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 23, 2017
    I am a new subscriber to CC 2017 and am appalled that there would be such disfunction this far down the Photoshop line! I have been a Photoshop user since version 1 and can't believe at this point I would have to do such a workaround to make my silhouettes work!
    bradleys87553496
    bradleys87553496
    Participant
    December 20, 2016
    yup its ridiculous, I shoot products all day every day for work and have to do all the work in CC but to clip path have to revert back to CS6 to get full functionality
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 20, 2016
    Yes Bradley, every time I receive an Adobe survey / questionnaire, I mention that I would happily recommend their products to others if they would fix this glitch!  Still battling with the time sink it creates!
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