The Paths dialog button bar provides access to six functions: New
Path, Duplicate Path, Path to Selection, Selection to Path, Stroke
Path, and Delete Path.
New Path and Duplicate Path are self-evident. The New Path button
creates a new path, and the Duplicate Path button duplicates the
current active path.
The Path to Selection button converts the active path to a selection.
The path can also be converted to a selection by simply clicking
inside the path in the image window. In either case, this causes the
selection's Marching Ants to appear in the image window but does not
necessarily cause the visibility of the path to toggle off. To toggle
off the path's visibility, click on a tool icon, other than the one
for Bezier Path, in the Toolbox.
The Selection to Path button is the same as the To Path function
described in Section
3.3.12. Using this button converts a
selection visible in the image window to a new path in the Paths
dialog. This becomes the active path and can be seen in the image
window.
The Stroke Path button is the same as the Stroke function
described in Section
3.3.15. It is applied to the active
path using the active brush and the active foreground color. In
addition, the Stroke function in the Paths dialog will stroke
the path using any painting tool selected from the Toolbox. To
specify the painting tool, you select its icon in the Toolbox just
prior to clicking the Stroke Path button in the Paths dialog. Using
this technique the Airbrush tool can be
used, for example, to stroke the path.
Finally, the Delete Path button removes the active path from the Paths
Palette.
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