p khoo

I am having a problem with PS7 where I have created a path with several enclosed areas - for eg a smiley face: the circle for the face, two smaller circles for the eyes and one for the mouth. I used to be able to save this as the one path and when I make the path a selection, all the individual paths would be outlined and selected (and effectively it becomes a mask) but now when I make the selection the outside path is selected (i.e. the circle for the face)and I dont get the selections for the eyes or mouth. I was able to do this in PS6 but dont know what I am doing wrong now...Can anyone help?

john mensinger

If they are separate paths, in the Paths Palette, Ctrl+Click the first one, then Shift+Ctrl+Click the others.

If they are all in one path, then I'm not sure what you're doing wrong because I can't seem to reproduce the problem here.

ken nielsen •

Go up to the options menu while the pen tool is selected and the paths are all marquee selected. Make sure that you choose the right-hand most selection box for path type. Re-save the file using save as to save the correction after you make it.

In the future, be sure of the proper path type before drawing with the pen tool.

p khoo

thank you. I didn't realise my "exclude overlapping paths" box wasn't checked