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How to turn off auto crop when copying/pasting layer?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
March 7, 2023
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Hello,

I have multiple sketches in a document with a 64x64 grid. The grid is there so that I can easily select and copy/copy merged, copy, and paste to a new document which will by my PNG export.

https://i.imgur.com/wTqYYYp.png

The problem is that when I copy or copy merged, PS crops the contents. If I make a perfect 256x256 selection, copy merged, it crops the clipboard to (just as example) 239x241 because my sketches don't touch the edges of the grid. When I paste it into a new 256x256 document, it pastes "centered", and the sketch is no longer in the exact position it was relative to the grid in my main document.

This is extremely annoying and a waste of time to fix manually. In the interest of iterating on art in a consistent and streamlined manner, I really need to find a way to disable auto crop on copy.

I searched, and found that PS Elements has a checkbox that does exactly what I want. This option is not present in my copy of PS CC:

https://i.imgur.com/OZnbEG4.png

How do I do this in CC?

Thanks.

Windows

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Conrad_C

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The problem is that when I copy or copy merged, PS crops the contents. If I make a perfect 256x256 selection, copy merged, it crops the clipboard to (just as example) 239x241 because my sketches don't touch the edges of the grid. When I paste it into a new 256x256 document, it pastes "centered", and the sketch is no longer in the exact position it was relative to the grid in my main document.
By @cloudscapes

I wonder if this might be overthinking it, or misdiagnosing it. If you are simply choosing Edit > Paste, then the selection dimensions shouldn’t affect anything. What should happen on a standard Paste is the default paste behavior, which is that a layer pastes at the center of the receiving document. That’s all.

If you don’t want it to paste in the center, choose Edit > Paste Special > Paste in Place, or press its keyboard shortcut shown next to the command. Paste in Place maintains the coordinates that the layer had in the document it was cut/copied from. Does that help resolve it and keep it aligned to the grid?

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

The Enable Crop Pre-Selection in the photoshop elements preferences has to do with the

Crop suggestions (previews) that are shown when hovering over the thumbnails in the

Crop Tool options and not anything to do with copy and paste.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Photoshop pastes the pixel bounding area within the selection, not the selection bounding area.

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cloudscapesAuthor

Participant

So how do I make it copy/paste the full selection bounding area?

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Let's confirm, the selection contains transparency? The transparent area is the size of the selection, but the pixel content is smaller than the selection. Is that correct?

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