Resizing Paths The Easy Way
When you’re working with paths, you can visually resize your path by using the Path Selection tool. To do this, press A to get the tool, then go up in the Options Bar and turn on the checkbox for Show Bounding Box. This puts a Free Transform-like bounding box around your path, and you can use this bounding box to resize your path by dragging the handles (remember to hold the Shift key to resize it proportionately).
Thank you thank you thank you! Someone else had created a path for an image but for some reason it was a fair bit larger than the image itself so this has saved me a lot of time! Works like a dream 🙂