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naruuu
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July 4, 2018
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When I paste an image in photoshop, its quality goes so bad!

  • July 4, 2018
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Whenever I paste an image or drag and drop it to my photoshop document, the image resolution goes so bad.

What should I do to keep the quality of an image that I want to edit/draw on in photoshop?

    5 replies

    Participant
    November 3, 2024

    Instead of copying images you need to file } export as a PNG which will save the image to your computer, and then instead of pasting you will file } place embedded which should give you a 100% clear image

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2024

    @max_2996 

    Copy/paste is the proper and safe way to do it if you want to avoid scaling and quality degradation.

     

    Placing a smart object is exactly when you can get unwanted scaling, which was the problem here.

    Participant
    August 11, 2020

    This happens to me as well! I notice it most when I take screen shots. If I paste the screen shot into a more simple program like Paint or Powerpoint, the "quality" is preserved. But when I paste into a new Photoshop file it tends to loose quality, by which I mean that text is too blurry to read. 

     

    The below Huntington lake map was pasted into Paint. You can easily read all the road names. (I'm not sure if this will transfer well to inserting into a post, but hopefully you can tell the difference). This image is 396KB, 1904x1062pixels, 96dpi.

    This Dinkey Creek Road map is 2 screenshots (the road runs over two maps) pasted into a blank document in Photoshop so I could line them up and create a single continuous map of the whole road. The "quality" is so low I can't read any of the road names and can barely distinguish the line pattern types to see what kind of road it is. This image is 413KB, 1252x770pixels, 72dpi.

     

    Here is a close up section of the same Dinkey Creek Rd map. This file is 195KB, 837x588pixels, 72dpi.

    Participant
    September 11, 2022

    I have the same problem.  I'll attach screenshots.  An image draged into Word looks fine.  If I copy it in Word, create a new file in Photoshop, and paste it in, it looses resolution.  Dramatically.  If I resize the Photoshop image to 4X the dpi and paste again it makes no difference.  Frustrating.

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 11, 2022

    Those screenshots say absolutely nothing without any kind of context. Where are they from, what application, how did you make them? What do you mean, exactly, when you say "resolution"? What's wrong here?

     

    The only thing I can make out of this is that the last one appears to have been massively scaled up/resampled.

    Trevor.Dennis
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 4, 2018

    This will not apply if you really are pasting into the target image, but if you are pasting, and these Preference settings are checked (which I think is the default), then it could be that the pixel size of the source image is way too small. 

    If you are sourcing your images from Google, are you making use of the Size filter?  You can go right up to 9000 pixels on the long side with 'Larger than...'  It is important that you chose appropriate sizes when introducing new image elements.

    There is actually a useful side benefit of searching for large pixel sizes.  It gets you past all the watermarked stock images that fill the first several pages, and it is obviously better to work with larger images from the point of view of making selections etc.

    Theresa J
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 4, 2018

    What is the pixel dimensions of the Photoshop document? What is the pixel dimension of the image you are pasting into it? Which is going bad, the image in the original Photoshop document, or the one you are placing into it? Is this a problem with a specific document, or does it happen with everything?

    Semaphoric
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 4, 2018

    Saying "The resolution goes bad" doesn't tell us anything. Could you post  some before and after pics? And are you viewing them at 100% in Photoshop?

    Participant
    April 17, 2024

    Him telling us the resolution goes bad gives us a general idea of his problem. One could probably imagine that the quality of his image depreciates once he rescales and if a person knows that they can offer solutions that cater to that issue.