Thanks for taking the time to fill me in, although this may be getting into [OT] territory…
Is this tantamount to "flattening" a PSD? I have taken several PS layers and flattened them to one that preserves the "look". But, sorry for my newbieness, if a path is filled with some crucial picture element like a gradient fill of some kind, then deleting that path also deletes the fill — thus, messing up the picture. What step am I missing here? How do you preserve the image and still delete elements that are crucial to its make-up?
-e
just to add, that when exporting a final format image,one may not
want to include paths/masks to lower file size and not offer further
editing helpers.
Only "save for web" deletes paths on its own.
On 18-Feb-12 08:54, Jonathan Penzner wrote:
I'll often get a picture of a car that's been made gorgeous
by other artists, using paths for every conceivable aspect of
the of the look. I don't need 28 paths. I might need two, and
those other paths get in the way. Same goes for alpha channels.
And for the final pic, I may not want or need any channels or
paths.
Paths and channels can useful for creating a picture but once
the look has been achieved they are no longer needed and can get
in the way when imported into other programs. So I'll save a
file with all the working paths and channels, then a copy with
nothing but the finished pic.
Hope that helps.
Jonathan
On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Enrique Gamez wrote:
I have an inkling that mine is a dumb question. But, here goes <duck and cover>,
Why would you want to delete paths and/or alpha
channels? Wouldn't doing that ruin your picture?
-e
Fantastic. Thanks, Evan. Great tip.
On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:50 AM, Evan Fotis wrote:
FWIW I use
a script that deletes all channels and paths at
once:
#target photoshop
app.bringToFront();
var theImage = app.activeDocument;
theImage.pathItems.removeAll();
theImage.channels.removeAll();
On 17-Feb-12 02:11, Jonathan
Penzner wrote:
By the way, wouldn't it be
nice if, in Photoshop, you could select
all the paths or alpha channels at one
time and drag them to the trash? I often
receive files with dozens of paths and
deleting them one at a time is a pain.
JONATHAN
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