How to convert a contour shape (shape) to a work path?

Question

Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop CS4, when creating a figure, made an outline of a figure from a filled layer with a color, for example, and it was transferred to any other layer, even to a photo, even to a smart object, even though
I don’t see this in a group in the new Photoshop CC - when creating a figure, it does something else, how to make a vector mask from this figure for another layer
, he can only make a vector mask from the work path

Answer 1

Select the desired option before creating the figure: