Photoshop CS3 paste screen from clipboard?

keogh · 15 Sep 2007 at 15:39

Howdy,

I've asked this on the adobe froums too, but im very eager for an answer, so its here aswell

Can anyone explain why I cannot paste clipboard screengrabs in photoshop CS3 on Mac OS X? I use to do it all the time on the Windows version no matter what, but it will not work on mac version?

I say it don't work, the copy of the screen goes to the clipboard, as I can hear the generic mac "click" and I can paste it in to office. Also if I copy the screen with photoshop CLOSED (quited out and not even running) and then boot photoshop up it will happily paste the screen grab in... but thats it, I can copy as many screenies to my clipboard as I want after and photoshop will not paste it in? doesn;t matter if I copy screenies inside photoshop, or outside, if photoshop is running it will not allow screenies.

Anyone else have this problem? How do I get around it... without paste a screengrab to a png on my desktop?

any help will be appreciated!

ta

Steve M

keogh · 15 Sep 2007 at 19:34

Na mate thats no good, I know the command to do it, just photoshop wont let me paste it in. If you have photoshop try it, try copying the screen several times without closing photoshop and see if it works everytime!

If I have ps closed and copy the screen to a clipboard then open ps it works. But any screen grabs after do not paste in to ps... it actually clears the clipboard? So if I have a screengrab in my clipboard from before opening ps, i can paste that in as much as I want... press the command again to print the screen and it clears the clipboard (the paste option in the edit menu is greyed out)!

I'm sure many of you have photoshop... can you try this for me? Or tell me how you do screengrabs?

keogh · 15 Sep 2007 at 22:06

It is a OS difference, it was pdf's and now its png's since tiger I think, but you can change it back.

But this is besides the point, im aware of all the different ways to get screenies and I am aware of this method, but that isn't my problem. My problem is pasting from the clipboard to photoshop! It wont work and I want to know why it isn't, and if anyone else has this problem?

I could very well create a png to the desktop and use that, but thats a long winded way, I want to go straight from the clipboard, its much quicker and makes more sense to me (prob cos Ive still got my windows brain in)!

keogh · 16 Sep 2007 at 09:15

Kevin Clark said:
I don't think Macs can do what you want to do by default.

This widget looks like it might do the job though
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/business/screenshotplus.html

Na they do it, SHIFT+CTRL+OPTION+3 copies the screen to the clipboard, and it works perfectly on the mac side of things and I can paste the screenie into Preview/NeoOffice etc etc. Its Photoshop thats panics when it comes to it, I copy screen to clipboard and it will work first time, but after that it dont want to work.

But I have kinda found the reason behind it, I was doing it to quickly. If I copy the screen to the clipboard, wait a few seconds, then go into photoshop it works fine. But if I do it instantly (like I use to do on Windows might I add) then it obviously gets stuck making the transfer from OS X clipboard to PS clipboard (as photoshop has its own clipboard) and then cannot paste it.

Its a bug of sorts I suppose, and maybe cos adding screenies to the clipboard is relatively new to OS X it may get fine tuned it future releases of mac OS... I hope!?!?!?

So for now I will have to do it a bit slower.