Paste Into greyed out - Paste In Place no longer works

[CreatorDestroyer]

Been using Photoshop for more than 20 years now. All of the sudden, these paste options, which I use regularly, no longer appear or do not work as expected. Please help!

[Art101Design]

Heh... thanks for the reply. I do indeed feel your pain.

Scotch – good idea. Single or double malt? I'm gonna shut down this junk and take the rest of the day off.

Cheers!

[CreatorDestroyer]

Both, I enjoy blends as well as single malt.
All the best,
Jim

I'm here from scotch.

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[RP23]

I had the same problem. I was able to copy and paste a text layer onto another photo using the menu dropdown but when I tried to copy and paste a photo, it was grayed out. At this point whether it is 8 bits or 16 etc doesn't matter because I haven't even told it what photo to paste onto. What finally worked for me was opening the photo I wanted to copy then I hit Select >All to get the marching ants around it and then the "Copy" command was no longer grayed out and I was able to copy and paste the photo finally.

[sallytan]

It works for me too. U save my life!

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, @sallytan , could you state if you also cannot Ctrl+C, and tell us if the source image is also in 32 bits, if there is anything special. Can you copy and paste in the same image?

[sallytan]

I tried to copy an image using Ctrl C and also Copy in the dropdown menu, but it not work for me, i.e. Paste Into greyed out. What worked for me is -  Select > All, then go to Edit > Copy. After that, the Paste Special > Paste Into is in black mode. Here is the photo i used. - https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/young-asian-backpacker-female-wearing-hat-traveling-historic-site... 

[Max266671620url]

Yep also has now happened to me? I feel like photoshop has just got worse and worse over time?

[PECourtejoie]

Do you remember what was the last step before the copy?

There might be a step that triggers a change in behavior.

Quickmask? Object select tool?

[Jacob5F84]

Just checking -- eveyone here did have the layer they want to paste into selected not just as the active layer, but marching-ants-selected...right? After not using PS for a while, and coming back for a project and trying to Paste Into a layer mask, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't let me. After some searching around on the Web, I realized I forgotten that it was necessary to use area selection or Select All first on the target layer. (Or maybe that didn't use to be necessary?) Voila, it worked.

[Chris35276841gfbx]

Solved, go into the layers panel and unlock the layer. All OK after that.