Trouble with Path and creating Selection

I thought I was beyond beginners mistakes - not so. Please Help.
I have a bird (the feathered kind) that I wish to move from one
location to another.

I am quite a fan and fair expert at the pen tool and prefer that to
make accurate selections. This time things have gone wrong. I use a
pristine (unfiddled) picture and make a copy to work on. I then bring
the pen to bear. When I go to Paths and use 'Make Selection' I get two
selections, the bird and the whole frame of the photo - not what I
want at all.

When I try to move it or copy and paste somewhere else, the whole of
the picture is copied rather than the bird selection.

I have got round the problem by using the mask selection and that work
well. Why has my old friend the pen tool denied me :-)????????????????

Borge in Perth

borge wrote:
>
> I thought I was beyond beginners mistakes - not so. Please Help.
> I have a bird (the feathered kind) that I wish to move from one
> location to another.
>
> I am quite a fan and fair expert at the pen tool and prefer that to
> make accurate selections. This time things have gone wrong. I use a
> pristine (unfiddled) picture and make a copy to work on. I then bring
> the pen to bear. When I go to Paths and use 'Make Selection' I get two
> selections, the bird and the whole frame of the photo - not what I
> want at all.
>
> When I try to move it or copy and paste somewhere else, the whole of
> the picture is copied rather than the bird selection.
>
> I have got round the problem by using the mask selection and that work
> well. Why has my old friend the pen tool denied me :-)????????????????
>
> Borge in Perth

Your selection is the background, not the bird.
Activate the selection again, then invert it and make a new path. If you
don't need the old path, delete it.
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