Comments on: Printscreen doesn't work with Photoshop – Solution

By: Nari B.E.

Nari B.E. — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:42:52 +0000

THANKS SO MUCH MR. Rayzor Matthews :) YOUR ANSWER HELPED ME A LOT WITH MY PROJECT! THANKS…YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER… :)

By: A. van Dijk

A. van Dijk — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:01:25 +0000

Tx so much for this solution

kind regards
a. van Dijk

By: Rayzor Matthews

Rayzor Matthews — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:45:12 +0000

1. Open Windows Media Player 2. Go to "Tools" then select "Options" 3. Select the "Peformance Tab" 4. Click "Advanced" 5. Under "Video Acceleration" uncheck "Use Overlays" and check "Use high quality mode" 6. Click "ok" button. 7. Click "Apply" button and you're set. press Ctrl+Alt+PrntScr at the same time to capture the image you want. Go to your active Photoshop CS3 window and click "ctrl n" and press "ctrl+v" your image is pasted the image won't be like it's under mask or something and once you saved to jpeg you won't see a black screen.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:55 +0000

Interesting, Rayzor. I wasn't getting a black screen on cntrl V … I was getting nothing at all. I'll try your tips next time — thanks.

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:20:08 +0000

Thank you, LiSe. Yes, it easy to use the Printscreen functions to paste into Photoshop or other applications, although it's Cntrl V to paste. However, the above was written for when the Clipboard doesn't copy, so there's nothing to paste into Photoshop. That can occasionally happen (particularly when you've been pasting Printscreens into Photoshop quite a lot), and rebooting was the only solution --- and not a great solution when you're working. So I wrote the post because the solution was difficult to find. Interesting that that solution was from Microsoft itself with regard to Photoshop CS3, so they recognize that there's sometimes a problem. In Photoshop, I usually just Cntrl N to start a new document; next time (if) this happens, I'll see whether File > New gives a Clipboard option.

By: LiSe

LiSe — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:04:26 +0000

It is very
easy: use printscreen, or alt-printscreen, or ctrl-printscreen,
Then in photoshop file>new
It will recognize your printscreen action and say "clipboard", if it doesn't, choose from the dropdown list.
Press ok
And then in that new little file: paste (ctrl-C or whatever you prefer).

You can define the size before the 'ok', but that is up to you.

LiSe

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:26:47 +0000

You're very welcome. It's strange when that happens; glad my research helped!

By: RCL

RCL — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:23:19 +0000

Thanks allot mate! Been looking for a solution for this for quite some time now, finally found it!