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P: Copy photo to clipboard

Community Beginner ,
Oct 28, 2021 Oct 28, 2021

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I can't find a specific feature request that exists for this (there is a discussion thread here, but it is marked as "solved" with a link to a totally unrelated feature).

 

I often want to share a photo from my library in Slack, imessages, e-mail, etc., and the easiest workflow on Mac these days for most apps is to be able to copy (cmd-C) the image and paste it into the other app. Dragging the photo to the other app is a nice alternative (though one I use less often).

 

For desktop lightroom, the best solution seems to be one of:

1.

* export photo

* drag the photo from Finder to the app of your choice

* delete the photo when done

 

2.

* cmd-ctrl-4 (for cropped screengrab) and drag the rectangle to match the edges of the photo as best you can

* paste poorly compressed photo into app of your choice (I just did it on a photo covering less than half my screen, and it resulted in a 25.4 MB file)

 

Surely it wouldn't be that hard to integrate Lightroom into the copy-paste mechanics of the OS so that we could (a) cmd-C to copy a lightweight PNG export of the photo to clipboard and (b) drag from grid view to achieve the same thing?

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Explorer ,
Oct 04, 2022 Oct 04, 2022

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This missing feature is SO BASIC, where is it?

Just to provide some context: it works on iOS.

Here's a fun tip for a PM at Adobe: make a list of things you can do on the phone that you can't do on the mac and ask yourself why TF you can do something on a phone and not a computer?

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Community Beginner ,
Sep 27, 2024 Sep 27, 2024

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I often want to send images via messanger apps, to clients for preview, or my personal images to share with friends and family. There should be a "Export to Clipboard" option in the Share... menu at the very least, but there should be a menu item/keyboart shortcut for it.

 

Having to take poorly-cropped screenshots to share images is stupid. The built-in photo apps have this, it's on the phone, too. What gives?

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