creating a path which is actually following a long convoluted trail through an image of a large stretch of bushland.
Instructions don't mention how to stop doing it. Just pick another tool?
They don't mention how to keep it - just happens automatically when I save the image?
Doesn't make clear to me if I must convert to a selection. ?
Not sure if I have to 'stroke' it ?
Can I come back to it and edit it next time - continue it as one path or does it get 'frozen' once 'stroked' etc ?
p.s.
And if I can step back to a most primitive basic question:
I always immediately make a copy layer in the belief that this way I'm ensuring I'll no way damage my original image.
Is this a bit daft? Would I get just as much protection if I immediately simply save the image with a new name?
But anyway, having done it, created a copy layer to work on I'm always thinking I should then delete that original layer and then I'm safe, all connection with my original now broken. Is that equally daft?
p.p.s. I suppose there's no way to get back a path that disappeared?
I couldn't find how to end the making of a path no matter where I looked. In the finish I read something that suggested double clicking on the last node would do it. So I did that. All seemed peaceful. So then I selected the move tool.
The path immediately disappeared and wouldn't come back.
That was a good half hour's work. How to use the path tool? Including 'stop using' the path tool?
Instructions don't mention how to stop doing it. Just pick another tool?
They don't mention how to keep it - just happens automatically when I save the image?
Doesn't make clear to me if I must convert to a selection. ?
Not sure if I have to 'stroke' it ?
Can I come back to it and edit it next time - continue it as one path or does it get 'frozen' once 'stroked' etc ?
p.s.
And if I can step back to a most primitive basic question:
I always immediately make a copy layer in the belief that this way I'm ensuring I'll no way damage my original image.
Is this a bit daft? Would I get just as much protection if I immediately simply save the image with a new name?
But anyway, having done it, created a copy layer to work on I'm always thinking I should then delete that original layer and then I'm safe, all connection with my original now broken. Is that equally daft?
p.p.s. I suppose there's no way to get back a path that disappeared?
I couldn't find how to end the making of a path no matter where I looked. In the finish I read something that suggested double clicking on the last node would do it. So I did that. All seemed peaceful. So then I selected the move tool.
The path immediately disappeared and wouldn't come back.
That was a good half hour's work. How to use the path tool? Including 'stop using' the path tool?