Clipping path disappears when I drag an...

Mac OS 10.5.6. CS 3.
Clipping path disappears when I drag an...
I have a clipping path around my item. But when I drag it over to another Photoshop document to place over the other image (or copy paste) the clipping path disappears. Any ideas? Thanks.
Clipping path disappears when I drag an...
When you say ''clipping path''do you mean you have set up a path as a clipping path in Photoshop's paths panel? This type of old school clipping path is not really directly linked to the pixel content. Dragging and dropping layers will leave this path behind.



Sounds to me like you need to set up your path as a Vector layer mask. When you have done this, a drag and drop operation, will take the layer and the vector path with it. Copy and Paste will not.



Holding down your Shift key as you drag will also centre the path and the pixels in the new document. This may be another workaround.

You can drag a Path from the Paths palette or a document to another document. Aligning may be a problem though.



Mark's idea will probably do the trick.

Thank you. Where can I go to learn how to do a Vector Layer Mask? (Any tutorials?)Thanks.

Layer%26gt;Add Vector Mask%26gt;Current Path. All there is to it.

Thank you.

Or holding down your command key, click on the Add Layer Mask icon in the layers panel. This will create a vector mask in the fastest way. Using the Path selection tool (A), you can copy and paste the path you already created into it.