# Print Screen for Photoshop **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [June 10, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860 "2008-06-10T16:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/1 "2008-06-10T16:23:14Z")
Half the time when I try to paste something that I’ve Print-Screened, it won’t paste into Photoshop CS2. I have to restart the whole program to make it work. Has anyone run into this problem and found a fix? ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/2 "2008-06-10T18:00:44Z")
Make sure its updated to the most up-to-date version of CS2 would be the only solution. I’m gonna guess your waiting for CS4… so you only have a few more months to wait for that. 🙂 I don’t know why this would be happening though maybe its something with your OS. Does print screening into paint or a similar program work as expected? //edit, it would help if you told us the OS… I forget which one you use XP Vista or OSX? ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/3 "2008-06-10T18:42:53Z")
Well temp, i’m betting you can scratch OS X off the list of potential OS’s as screenshots automatically output to your desktop as a png ---
**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/4 "2008-06-10T18:43:20Z")
I have XP and Vista. This problem showed up in both OS’s. ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/5 "2008-06-10T20:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=fasterthanlight™;2340229]Well temp, i’m betting you can scratch OS X off the list of potential OS’s as screenshots automatically output to your desktop as a png[/QUOTE] This is but a _single_ screenshot option in OSX. Command+Shift+F2 to copy the screenshot marquee to the clipboard. Create new PSD; it will match the clipboard content dimensions. Paste. OSX works correctly if you know how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/6 "2008-06-10T20:54:54Z")
what? single? so what about screen shotting specific areas? (command-shift-4) or screenshotting a specific window (command-shift-4 + space) I count four _faster shuts up about his os x now_ ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/7 "2008-06-10T21:22:51Z")
English 101: _"this is but a single screenshot option"_ Implies that in addition to the forementioned option, there are other options to create screenshots. However, this is irrelevant to the topic at hand, which questions the _basic capability_ for OSX to natively copy screenshots to the clipboard, then subsequently paste them into a PSD, which it can do, in various ways. Your original statement was correct, but it was incomplete, and the assertion that Screenshots cannot be copied to the clipboard in OSX was false. BTW, according to the logic in your assertion, he should be “scratching XP and Vista from his list of potential OS’s”, since both exhibit the screenshot problem with Photoshop. LOL ---
**Author:** ![soulty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/soulty/32/105_2.png) [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/8 "2008-06-16T15:32:06Z")
…anyway guys…:sigh: I have had the same problem at time after hours of print screen work. I found that if i ‘Purge’ (edit/purge) my clipboard; the print screen pasting into photoshop works again without restarting photshop. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/9 "2008-06-16T16:15:06Z")
> [@snickelfritz;2340329](#): > > However, this is irrelevant to the topic at hand, which questions the _basic capability_ for OSX to natively copy screenshots to the clipboard, then subsequently paste them into a PSD, which it can do, in various ways. > Your original statement was correct, but it was incomplete, and the assertion that Screenshots cannot be copied to the clipboard in OSX was false. Err, reading 101 I never said it couldn’t, i said by default it doesn’t. Thats not to say it _doesnt_, but the most used, most common method of capturing screenshots is to hit command-shift-3. I never “asserted” that this functionality doesn’t exist. mmkay? Also, forum ettiquette 101: Don’t sound like a jerk, KTHXBAI (faster is also a hypocrite) ---
**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/10 "2008-06-16T16:56:42Z")
Edit: I know how to “purge” now. ---
**Author:** ![snickelfritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@snickelfritz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snickelfritz)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/11 "2008-06-16T18:23:08Z")
The following statement provides additional information regarding your knowledge of OSX screenshot methods. It also distinctly conveys the impression that you feel you are redressing a fallacy or ommision in my post. > [@fasterthanlight](#): > > what? single? so what about screen shotting specific areas? (command-shift-4) or screenshotting a specific window (command-shift-4 + space) > I count four Please explain what you is misleading or untrue in the following post. > [@Snick](#): > > This is but a single screenshot option in OSX. > Command+Shift+F2 to copy the screenshot marquee to the clipboard. > Create new PSD; it will match the clipboard content dimensions. > Paste. > OSX works correctly if you know how to use it. Please support your original assertion that OSX should be stricken from a hypothetical list, in the context of this thread, simply because it can optionally write screenshots to the desktop in png format. I fail to see the logic. cheers, Snick ---
**Author:** ![soulty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/soulty/32/105_2.png) [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/12 "2008-06-17T01:16:10Z")
enough guys… any more of this useless debating crap and i will close this thread. 🅰 ---
**Author:** ![anon1712571](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@anon1712571](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anon1712571)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/13 "2008-06-17T14:57:42Z")
[quote=snickelfritz;2340329]English 101: _"this is but a single screenshot option"_ Implies that in addition to the forementioned option, there are other options to create screenshots. However, this is irrelevant to the topic at hand, which questions the _basic capability_ for OSX to natively copy screenshots to the clipboard, then subsequently paste them into a PSD, which it can do, in various ways. Your original statement was correct, but it was incomplete, and the assertion that Screenshots cannot be copied to the clipboard in OSX was false. BTW, according to the logic in your assertion, he should be “scratching XP and Vista from his list of potential OS’s”, since both exhibit the screenshot problem with Photoshop. LOL[/quote] Way to over embellish 😛 ---
**Author:** ![soulty](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/soulty/32/105_2.png) [@soulty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/soulty)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/print-screen-for-photoshop/262860/14 "2008-06-17T17:02:04Z")
dark, i said no more, back to topic.