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drag and drop from web browser to Photoshop 2021 doesnt work (Windows)

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May 30, 2021
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I use PS 2021. Whenever I try to drag and drop and image from my browser (chrome) to photoshop it simple doesnt work. It shows the rectangle with the + sign, but nothing happens when I release it. From file explore this problem does not occur. I recently switched from mac to pc and on the mac this was possible and I used it all the time. It is quite important for my workflow to have this feature!

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ROSS28505688qd2p

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If you right click and copy image address, you can then got to Paste Linked... and paste the adress in there and it will appear. You can also do this in Illustrator with the Place command.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

I am not sure if this is a complete answer, but I’ll mention that drag and drop in general is much better supported by Adobe applications in macOS than in Windows.

I tried importing an image into Photoshop by drag-and-drop in Windows in a virtual machine on my Mac, and got the same result you did: Works perfectly well dragging from Windows desktop to Photoshop, but not from web browser (I tried Microsoft Edge) to Photoshop.

But there is more. It has been acknowledged that some drag-and-drop import workflows that work great on the Mac, such as dragging files into Premiere Pro or Lightroom Classic, are not supported by Adobe in Windows. As you are finding, those drag-and-drop workflows work fine in Windows using other combinations of programs, but for some reason there are several Adobe applications where drag and drop import is more limited in Windows. It looks like this might be the case for Photoshop too, unless someone can show how that browser-to-Photoshop drag-and-drop workflow is supposed to be done.

D Fosse

Community Expert

There is an additional problem: when you drag and drop, you don't necessarily get the full original image. This has been shown on Mac as well.

In most web browsers, what you get is a "proxy" image, a sort of screenshot if you like. It will not have an embedded color profile, and it may not be full resolution.

Dragging works in Windows from Firefox to Photoshop. But what you end up with is a .bmp file with no profile.

For this reason I have always said that even if drag and drop works, it's bad practice with unpredictable results. Right-click and Save is the safe way to do it.

gener7

Community Expert

I tried it on the Mac, and got a profile mismatch warning that the image I was trying to drop into Ps had a Display Profile.

That and of all the ways to bring in an image that I was taught, drag and drop from a browser wasn't one.

Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should.

Akash Sharma

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Hi there,

That shouldn't be happening as dragging and dropping images from Web Browser to Photoshop 2021 is not working, let's make it right.

Which exact version of Photoshop 2021 are you using?

Could you please check if there are any Windows updates available to install?
Also, could you try restoring the preferences of Photoshop and let us know if it helps?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html

Note: Make sure that you back up all your custom presets, brushes & actions before restoring Photoshop's preferences. Migrate presets, actions, and settings

Regards,

Akash

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ADOOBE SUCKSAuthor

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I did what you suggested but unfortunately this didn't help. I used the 22.0.1 release

Could it have to do with user permissions?

gener7

Community Expert

Windows does not support it. Copy/Paste is only way to do this.

https://youtu.be/pdAaMoTZBl4

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