Okay…I closed and reopened Photoshop, which seems to have cured the problem for the time being. However, I’m adding this to my "I’ll be darned" list. 🙂 If someone else has experienced this problem and knows why it happened, I’d really appreciate if you could share the cause/resolution.
Thanks,
Lisa
I’ve seen that since version 7. Unreproducable on any regular schedule. As you’ve found, the only fix i’ve found when that starts happening is to save everything you have going on in PS then restart it.
Thanks, Dave. I find comfort in learning that it’s not a problem endemic to "just me". 🙂
You could try purging the clipboard: Start > Run > clipbrd.exe.
Then delete everything.
Thanks, John. I thought it might be simply that Photoshop couldn’t read the clipboard for whatever reason. In any case, I’ll definitely give your suggestion a try.
Having the same problem.
CS3 for some reason sometimes can’t paste pictures from the clipboard. Works flawless with other programs during that time.
Haven’t yet figured out what triggers the problem.
Hi everyone,
I’ve also found that Photoshop CS3 doesn’t handle the Windows clipboard properly. For example, I took a screenshot of Bridge CS3 and tried to open in PS. When I clicked File/New in PS, however, the pixel dimensions of the new document didn’t match the dimensions of the Bridge app window. Furthermore, Edit/Paste was grayed out.
I found a workaround to this problem that doesn’t require restarting PS. I pasted the clipboard contents into another application (in this case, Microsoft Visio, using Edit / Paste Special / Device-Independent Bitmap). I then went back to Photoshop, and clicked File/New. Now, the document’s pixel dimensions matched the Bridge app window, and the Edit/Paste command worked correctly to paste in the clipboard contents.
Successful clipboard-pasting in another application seems to prime PS CS3’s ability to import the clipboard contents.
Hope this is helpful.
Brad
Successful clipboard-pasting in another application seems to prime PS CS3’s ability to import the clipboard contents.
never has for me. only restart would work, but maybe they tweaked someething in cs3. i’ll check it out next time it happens to me…
thanks, dave
No matter how many times I restart my computer, this problem continues to plague me…and has done so for years.
I find it funny that Adobe was advertising how well all the CS3 programs communicate well with one another, but has yet to fix a bug which has been present in the past 4 versions that prevents it from communicating to the clipboard.
I don’t perceive this to be an issue with Windows, as I can paste into any other application (sans photoshop) on my computer.
