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Copy & Paste issues

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April 12, 2021
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When I am copying an image from one document to another in Photoshop CC the pasted image is not mainting it's size. For example I have a document at is 2.25 inches square. I select all and choose Copy Merged. I paste it into another document that is 8.5x11 inches with the same resolution. The copied image comes in much large than the original image. Screen shot shows the image pasted in behind three others I had pasted in and resized.

I have checked and unchecked Resize Image During Place (General Preferences) and restarted PS each time with the same result.

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Jade73

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You are 100% right that something has changed with the latest Photoshop. I have been having the same issue but have been too busy to look into it until now. If I use copy merge to copy several layers of an image and I do a paste into a new document - Photoshop does not keep the same image dimensions but just creates a document to place it in that is the same size as my most recent document that I opened (i.e. NOT the size of the copy merge I just created). This is a NEW problem. Additionally, I can no longer copy and paste from other applications into Photoshop like I used to be able to. I used to be able to copy an image right off the web or from 'preview' or other pdf editor and then paste it into Photoshop. That is no longer possible. This bug causes a LOT Of waste time trying to remember file sizes so I can create the right size to paste into for merged or having to download images and then opening them instead of just doing simple copy and paste. Lot's of little bugs in this Photoshop version.

D Fosse

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Nothing has changed and there is no bug. In a copy/paste, there is no "size". The pixel grid in the pasted file aligns with the pixel grid in the base document, pixel for pixel. That's all that happens.

The base document's physical print size is determined by whatever pixels per inch number you assign. Pixels per inch. That's the size.

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Jade73

Participating Frequently

I am pasting from one document that has the same pixels per inch as the other. As a user of Photoshop for over 20+ years using the same functionality day in and day out I can say with certainty that it is definitely behaving differently than it used to with this latest update.

Andreas Leou

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Edit / Preferences / General / Uncheck "Resize image during Place".

Back to normal 😉

JJMack

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Photoshop is a pixel editor copy and paste copy and paste selected pixels. Pixels are printed the size the document Print resolution is set to the Image will have the same pixels in both documents. However the image print size will be different if the document have a different Print PPI resolution. Copy and paste does not scale images. Place may scale images.

Both your image have the same print resolution. So your small 2.25x2.25 image will fill a 5.0625 square inches in your 8.5x11 image 93.5 square inch canvas. If you paste your 8.5x11 into your 2.25 x2.25 document it will be clipped by its canvas size only a square that is 5.0615 square inch of its 93.5 square inch area will be visible.

The screen capture you posted show nothing. There no layers palette, no history palette there is no information at all as what you have done what document were like that you used what scaling you may have done. On myWindows 10 PC I do not see problems with Copy and Paste in Photoshop. CS2, CS3, CS6, CC 2014, CC 2018, CC 2019, PS 2020 or PS 2021. PS 2021 has issues but not with Copy/Paste

JJMack

WilschneAuthor

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I think I am following you but something changed recently. I never had this problem before. I create documents at 300dpi all the time. They are different sizes depending on what I need them for. I use the 8.5x11 inch document to print from so I place as many things into it I can.

For example I have a template that is 9x4.25 inches. When I copy that into the same 8.5x11 document it comes in at the right size. I created a new 2.25x2.25 inch document, also at 300dpi. When I copy and past into the 8.5x11 inch document it comes in much larger as I showed in my screen shot. I had to size it down.

All three are created the same way as far as I can tell. However, the 2.25 inch one is new, the other two are copies of files that were created a a couple of years ago and saved with new names. I am going to test a few things by creating some new documents and see if they size differently when copy and pasted.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Photoshop works with pixels only. Stop thinking in terms of sizes, and start thinking in terms of pixels.

You paste into the existing pixel grid, pixel for pixel. If you paste 100 x 100 pixels into a 200 x 200 pixel base document, it will be quarter size.

Size is a derived secondary unit, a function of the pixels per inch number. That's how you translate a given number of pixels into a print size.

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