Why can I no longer copy/paste from Photoshop into iChat or Adium?
December 9, 2010 2:33 PM   Subscribe

Why can I no longer copy/paste from Photoshop into iChat or Adium?

For years I have been collaborating with people by designing things in Photoshop and often copy/pasting screenshots into iChat for discussion. This week, I suddenly can't. When I paste, I just get the error tone and nothing happens.

I can, however, use Firefox extensions like ScreenGrab! and paste from the browser. Just not from Photoshop.

Any ideas why this function would suddenly be blocked?
posted by critzer to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)
 
Best answer: Maybe use some utility to look at the clipboard? Check preferences to see what format you're copying in?
posted by Brainy at 2:35 PM on December 9, 2010


Are you copying something with transparency? I can see some applications not knowing what to do with that.
posted by kindall at 2:42 PM on December 9, 2010


Response by poster: Check preferences to see what format you're copying in?

Aaargh. That's it. I was following a 'how to speed up Photoshop' tutorial last week that told me to uncheck the Export Clipboard option in Preferences. Checked it again and it's fixed. Sorry guys.
posted by critzer at 2:46 PM on December 9, 2010


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