Photshop CS and Photoshop 7.01 Path Differences

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W_Osborn
Jun 24, 2004
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Why in photoshop 7 could i have a work path shown on canvas, and when i draw a selection merquee and hit delete it erases whatever is inside the selection box on current layer. Great!
NOW, in Photoshop CS if I have a layer out and am working on that layer, draw a marquee box and hit delete, if the path is visible IT gets deleted first not the part of layer I wanted!!!

Why did this change! If I wanted to work on PATH layer I would select the path in menu.

I had to make a shortcut macro to hide and show path!
ANy other solutions!?

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Jonathan_Balza
Jun 24, 2004
"if the path is visible IT gets deleted first not the part of layer I wanted!!! … If I wanted to work on PATH layer I would select the path in menu."

Pardon my ignorance, I guess… But if a path is visible, doesn’t that mean it IS selected? Hence why you would have problems with it being deleted?

I think the macro is probably the quickest way to hide a path, but I think that the behavior in CS is how it should be. I don’t have 7 installed anymore, so I can’t check the behavior in 7.
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W_Osborn
Jun 24, 2004
I checked it in 7, before I posted.
And it works how I said, it deletes the layer first.
Just because it is Visible in 7, does not make it selected.

It is like they switched delete priority.
7 = Layer -> Paths
CS = Paths -> Layers
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W_Osborn
Jun 29, 2004
Bump
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dave_milbut
Jun 29, 2004
bump what? if you have a workaround, get used to it.

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