14 Replies Latest reply: Feb 12, 2011 9:35 AM by Bill Hunt RSS

    Cannot Paste Image into Photoshop CS4

    Joker B Community Member

      I've lost the consistent ability to paste images from otehr applications (e.g. screen captures or web browsers) into Photoshop.It doesn't seem to matter what the source application is (so a screen-cap utility versus alt+prtScrn makes no difference).

       

      This is issue is plaguing the majority of artists in our game studio.

       

      It's even happening on new, clean installations. It happens under both XP and Win7.

       

      The problem is progressive -- it starts mildly, and gets worse over days and weeks (not just during a single session).

       

      When Photoshop starts, you can always paste at least one external clipboard image into it. After some number of external pastes, however, PS will simply stop importing the contents of the external clipboard, and will just keep pasting its own internal clipboard over and over. The # of pastes keeps getting shorter and shorter as the problem progresses -- for myself and our art director, we can usually only paste ONCE and then have to restart Photoshop. Twenty times a day.

       

      The "Edit->Purge" menu options are often greyed-out, so that's not an option for fixing.

       

      Please Help!

       

      thanks

      kb