How to combine more Paths into One Layer Path? can you help me out?

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September 20, 2012
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I have traced below image (bike). Using PEN tool stroke path.
Path is around 100 layers or +.
So, how to combine this all Stroke paths to one layer Path?
can you help me out?

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JJMack

Community Expert

An othe way is to combine them as you create them. Create the first shape. Use the pull doen menu to check combine shape. Here is a screen capture where I 'm adding lines with arrow heads to the current shape layer.

JJMack

analytical_Solace0D4CAuthor

Participant

Dear Sir,

you are talking abt shape. I know it can be merge on 1 layer. if you seen my image there is Stroke path (not a shape).

sudarshan.t

Inspiring

In your image, the stroke color is highlighted. But look at your Pen Mode - It's in 'Shape', not 'Path'. Shapes with stroke outline can exist and can be merged with the solution that was already posted earlier.

conroy

Participating Frequently

You have a choice:

Layer > Merge Shapes to merge into one Shape layer

or

Layer > Merge Visible to merge into one pixel layer

See keyboard shortcuts in menu. These items are at bottom of Layer menu. Combining Option/Alt key with these commands will result in the layers being retained in addition to the new merged layer being added to the document.

sudarshan.t

Inspiring

Layer > Merge Shapes
Layer > Merge Visible

Use 'Merge Shapes' if you want your shapes to still be editable. Merge Visible flattens the layers, rendering them non-editable.

chinarabbit

Participating Frequently

thanks conroy

the best I can do is select a Paths Palette Channel/Layer I have made, then click the vector mask icon in the masks palette, to load that Path as a vector

but i cant find a way to add another path from the path palette into the same vector, i have to create a new layer, select the path palette layer i want, then click the vecor mask icon again to create a separate vector mask with the second path loaded

if i drag one vector to the other, it just replaces it

the icons for add, intersect etc dont seem to do anything at all for anything in the paths palette

whats more, the vector masks behave EXACTLY like the paths palette layer, in that you cant even view them both at the same time.

are you able to view any paths on separate layers at the same time, without them loading as a selection?

or does anyone know of any way to get multiple paths palette channels loaded into the same vector mask or somehow get them combined, or even viewed in any way simultaneously,

thanks

no matter how many shapes you stick into a vector mask, they are all contained in a single Path Palette Layer-Channel

and every time you Make a Work Path from a Selection it throws you back out of everything into a new Paths Layer, with no way to combine them.. this works exactly the opposite of the Channels Palette, where combining multiple selections into one object is the most important function

in the Paths Palette, its exactly the opposite, combining multiple paths to create a new path is prohibited. outlawed, and forbidden

this is pretty frustrating.. and it seems outright intentional by adobe to make things much more difficult, limit functionality, prevent people from doing certain things, or to promote their other products, like illustrator..

anyone know if illustrator can do what PS has been intentionally designed not to be able to do, against all common sense.. i mean. u can even select multiple paths in the paths palette at the same time.

neither can you in any way combine or even view multiple paths

WTF? do we need 15 more editions of adobe to get this to function semi-normally, or is this one of those infamous & uber-lame adobe shanghais that undercuts and undermines creativity for a perceived bolsetering of some mythical societal brain-law enforcing

thanks for the brain shackles, adobe, i hope your kudos by the 3 psychotic deviants that percieve this as beneficial or necessary is worth it for you there..