I hate that you can’t copy a PNG from Finder and paste directly into Photoshop. What gives, man?

I hate that you can’t copy a PNG from Finder and paste directly into Photoshop. What gives, man?

Posted 1 year ago
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  1. nathanmanousos said: You can’t copy a PNG from anywhere! right? It drives me crazy and I try to do it like 10x per day.
  2. antigirl said: hahahah it is indeed terribly annoying
  3. jayrobinson said: Poor handling of the alpha transparency. That’s why I keep Preview in my Dock. Fires instantly and Command N is znew from Clipboard. Save As then open in Photoshop. Also, you can drag directly from Safari to a PS doc, which is just bananas.
  4. tiffscloset19 said: That sucks BIG TIME!
  5. tenebrousnight said: Noessss…..not that I would’ve noticed this, I use Windows/Ubuntu and GIMP :D
  6. conkers reblogged this from jacob and added:
    This is so annoying. And why does Photoshop mess up the alpha channel when copying
  7. chriskalani said: Dude I swear you used to be able to.
  8. becauseitmakesmesmile reblogged this from jacob and added:
    five-three-nine-four
  9. kleinjinx said: yes u can.. at least i can do it on my mac…
  10. joshuajenkins said: Have you tried firing it up in DOS?
  11. bendelaney said: Just switch to Fireworks.
  12. implodr said: CMD + click on the alpha channel layer to select the image with transparency. Copy, paste into a new document.
  13. headunderwater said: hate that.
  14. ajcates said: I’m not sure man. What I do is drag to the ps icon(or use quicksilver to send it to ps), then cmd+a, cmd+c, cmd+` cmd+v, cmd+`, cmd+w, tab, space. It’s a longer processes… but so is nearly everything you do in photoshop.
  15. saltsmcds said: Drives me NUTS
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