Sure.
Make a new Path "layer".
Draw the paths using the pen toolbeing sure to highlight the second from the left, and the extreme right-hand icons in the Option bar.
Just make sure that you draw all of your paths on the SAME Path palette "layer.
Choose "Clipping Path" from palette fly-out menu.
If you already created the paths in different layers can copy and paste them into a single layer. Pasting a path remembers its location so it’s a fairly easy process.
If you mean you need to combine them as in merge or unite, I know of know easy way to do it in PS. I usually just paste them into Illustrator, perform my Pathfinder Unite action, and paste them back into PS.
Jonf:
Get CS
!
[That is what those icons to the right of the Options bar are for.]
Even better: Get InDesign CS and forget about Clipping Paths.
…. or get Illustrator 88 : )
Ann … Are you sure? In PS7 although I can use those icons to adjust my selection area from my paths, it doesn’t seem to have an effect on using those paths as clipping paths. I.e., if I use the combine button on a pair of paths then use the paths to make a selection in PS, it selects the entire area as I’d expect. But if I make those paths into a clipping path and import the file, I end up with intersected paths, not combined paths. Has this changed in CS?
I’m still on OS 9.2. both at work and at home, so I can’t upgrade until I get a few thousand to upgrade the whole dang system.
Forget the icons for now. Let’s take it one step at a time. 1.) Have you pasted all the paths onto one path?
Jonf:
I tried it (using Photoshop CS) and placed a Photoshop EPS file with the combined clipping path (drawn with Add to Path icon selected) into Illustrator.
The clipped path shows correctly in Illustrator CS; Saves as a PDF and the separations proof correctly in Acrobat 6 Pro.
[I can’t vouch for QXP 6. Happily!]
