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Greenbriergames
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March 12, 2019
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HELP! Photoshop CC 20.0.3 "Adobe Photoshop clip Image is too big to be exported"

  • March 12, 2019
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I am unable to paste anything larger then 3620 x 3620 px from Photoshop into another Adobe product. 

If I create a new photoshop file with the dimensions of 3620x3620px at 300dpi, CMYK, and I paint the square black. I can copy said square into In-design or Illustrator w/o issue.

If I increase the pixel dimension to 3621x3621px or any pixel scale higher then that, when I paste said black square into In-design or Illustrator I am greeted with the following text instead of my black square. "Adobe Photoshop Clip Image is too big to be exported"

Searching for this term "Adobe Photoshop clip Image is too big to be exported" returns no results for 2019 via google, and usually points to forums from the early 2000s.

I have tried the registry edit of adding DWORD MaxClipSize=0 to all of my photoshop registry keys, as this seemed to correct Photoshop 6.0 and below, but has no effect on CC.

Even searching for how to increase the clipboard export size results in no results, and only points to archived forum posts.

I work in publishing and ran into this issue when attempting to copy a geometric template I wanted to vectorize in Illustrator and instead of copying my geometric shape it would only paste the text frame "Adobe Photoshop clip Image is too big to be exported"

I am on a windows 10 PC, using x64bit version of Photoshop CC 20.0.3. I have 3 scratch disks with over 50GB free on each, with a paltry 12GB of ram. I've rebooted my system twice, ran the Adobe CC updater for Pshop, and Illustrator to no avail.

Drag and drop doesn't seem to work. place doesn't seem to work. ctrl+C -> ctrl+V only works if the Pshop file is under 3620px aspect ratio. I started at 5000, and kept reducing the aspect ratio until the object pasted. 3621px seems to be the ceiling, and I want to increase that to something more like 10,000px.

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Jonathan23775487ll6b
Participant
March 27, 2022

I'm having the same issue. Trying to copy a Colour Range selection from Photoshop into Illustrator. Both files set at 300ppi.

jane-e
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jane-eCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 27, 2022

 

 

@Jonathan23775487ll6b wrote:

I'm having the same issue. Trying to copy a Colour Range selection from Photoshop into Illustrator. Both files set at 300ppi.

 

The PPI doesn't matter. In Photoshop it only matters when you print. In Illustrator PPI is in the Effects menu and only matters for raster effects, such as a Gaussian blur — everything else is vector and resolution independent. Instead, make sure both files have the same pixel dimensions and are in the same color space.

 

Instead of copy from PS and paste to AI, does it work to choose File > Place? Try both as a Linked file and as an embedded file.

 

Jane

 

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    defaultesozvgbjmx9h
    Participant
    November 10, 2021

    I ran into the same issue.  The thing that worked for me to fix it was to check my resolution.  The file I was copying was 300dpi, and the file was pasting to was 72dpi.  Once I matched the resolution, I was able to copy and paste with no problem.  Hopefully this is helpful for someone out there.

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    unhelpfultroubleshooter
    Participating Frequently
    October 28, 2021

    Still having this issue.

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      Carolyn5C74
      Participant
      April 15, 2021

      Same issue as of April 2021. Hello?  Is this thing on?  Hello?  Help? 

       

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        Carter5FF8
        Participant
        April 12, 2021

        I'm having the same problem in April of 2021.  Still no obvious solutions.  PHOTOSHOP SUCKS.

         

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          johannab70862866
          Participating Frequently
          November 8, 2020

          Having the same issue.... It doesn't even work with dimensions smaller than 3620x3620px ...

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          Jonnyxynnoj
          Participant
          September 21, 2020

          Having the same issue. Never have seen this before. Can't copy and paste a text doc 8.5 x 11 black/white from photoshop to illustrator. It's really infuriating. 

          Marieke Feenstra
          Marieke Feenstra
          Inspiring
          August 22, 2020

          Does anyone have a solution for this?

          I have the same problem with simple copy paste from Photshop to AI

          unchecking the message does not help, you just don;t get the message but copying via clipboard does not work

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          samm33048209
          Participant
          August 4, 2020

          I'm curious to know if anyone has solved this problem because I'm also having this issue

          davidl33530444
          davidl33530444
          Participant
          November 5, 2019

          I am having this exact same issue, more or less.

           

          I have done as @Sahil.Chawla suggested and unticked/closed PS and this didn't work. I tried your test export of a black box at 3620x3620 which I could c+p from PS to AI without issue. Add a single pixel to this and I get the same 'adobe photoshop clip image is too big to be exported' pasted error.

           

          I see you have a 'paltry' 12gb ram, well I have a ridiculous 32gb and have told Photoshop to use more than 20GB of it, plus I have a few scratch disks set up in both PS and AI. I would really appreciate some Adobe help for this, considering I'm paying for the service.

          davidl33530444
          davidl33530444
          Participant
          November 5, 2019

          Oh and for reference, I am using the newly updated PS-2020 / AI-2020 on a Windows 10 machine

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