Feature Request: New Image from Clipboard

[daveystew]

One of my most common workflows is working on clipboard content, but whereas taking a screenshot is super easy, getting it into a Photoshop document is more cumbersome than it could be, with panels, confirmations, extra keystrokes, etc.

Could we please have some or all of:

• File
  • New Document From Clipboard if there is clipboard content
• Edit > Paste Special...
  • Paste Into New Document
• Home panel
  • Ctrl+V creates new image from clipboard
• New Document panel
  • Ctrl+V creates new image from clipboard
  • Your Recent Items > Clipboard is auto-populated with the clipboard contents (this seems so obvious!)

FWIW Photopea has this; you just press Ctrl+V on the landing page and a new image is created, ready to edit, no panels, confirmations, or additional keystrokes.

Thanks!

[J E L]

@daveystew, here's how I do it, and I'm not sure if it could be simpler?

• Take a screenshot.
• In Photoshop, go to File > New. A dialog box preloads with the clipboard's dimensions.
• Click Okay.
• Ctrl+V.

Make sure in Preferences > General, you have Use Legacy “New Document” Interface checked.

[Sameer K]

Thanks for bringing this up. It is shared with the team for now.

[daveystew]

Hi @J E L - yes I do the same.

I just think it c/should be 1 step not 3! Especially with the new panels you have to go through now. What a palaver!

EDIT: Make sure in Preferences > General, you have Use Legacy “New Document” Interface checked.

Ah, just noticed this! Good to know.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

I wrote a script for this, let me see if I can find it using the forum search...

Edit: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/feature-request-auto-paste-when-creating-cl...

[mbalto]

This doesn't seem to work anymore in Photoshop version 25.7.0, even when the Legacy New Document box is checked in preferences.

[mbalto]

Trying to figure out how to delete my reply, as it does work after all. In Adobe Acrobat I just had to use "Take a snapshot" of the material I wanted for my Photoshop file rather than "Copy".

[PeterFDuke]

In Corel PhotoPaint you go:

Copy image to clipboard

File> New from clipboard

I have used it for years and can never remember how to do it in PhotoShop.