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I recently purchased Photoshop CS, having used lots of other graphics programs in the past. As I’m learning the PS interface and trying to acclimate myself, I immediately ran into a function I couldn’t do, yet it’s so simple, I’m sure it’s there somewhere.
In all my other graphic programs, I can paste something that I’ve captured to the clipboard into the program as a new image/file. For instance, if I’m on a web site somewhere and see a graphic I want to work with, I copy it to the clipboard, then open my graphic program and create a new image file by pasting the captured image. Depending on which of these programs I’m using, the method for creating a new image file from the clipboard is usually done by selecting either Edit>Paste>As New Image, or File>New>From Clipboard…something like that.
But for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to create a whole new image directly from the clipboard in PS! The only way I’ve found to do this is to first create a blank new image from File>New, and then paste into that the captured image. But this requires me to decide on the dimensions and other settings when I create the new image, which is tedious and requires me to first know the dimensions of the image I’ve captured.
I’d much rather just be able to create a new image directly from an image on the clipboard, so how do you do this in PS CS?
In all my other graphic programs, I can paste something that I’ve captured to the clipboard into the program as a new image/file. For instance, if I’m on a web site somewhere and see a graphic I want to work with, I copy it to the clipboard, then open my graphic program and create a new image file by pasting the captured image. Depending on which of these programs I’m using, the method for creating a new image file from the clipboard is usually done by selecting either Edit>Paste>As New Image, or File>New>From Clipboard…something like that.
But for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to create a whole new image directly from the clipboard in PS! The only way I’ve found to do this is to first create a blank new image from File>New, and then paste into that the captured image. But this requires me to decide on the dimensions and other settings when I create the new image, which is tedious and requires me to first know the dimensions of the image I’ve captured.
I’d much rather just be able to create a new image directly from an image on the clipboard, so how do you do this in PS CS?
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