Help! Direct copy to clipboard is making me nuts!

Hello, everybody! This is my first post here, and I already love it.....

I'm going absolutely crazy trying to figure out how to improve the quality of my clipboard images.

I'll be in Internet Explorer and see a picture I like, rt click on it, and copy. I'll come into Photoshop, select file-new, and paste it. Obviously for this to work, the clipboard is the medium used.....

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I notice that there's some pretty noticable distortion in the image quality. When I rt click and save the same image, and then open it, the picture quality is improved.

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Any suggestions on how I can improve the clipboard quality?

I was working on creating a wallpaper of Laeticia Casta for my home PC, and she shouldn't be distorted!

Any help would greatly be appreciated!

William

*rrrrrrrrrrr* nice picture ...
can't help you on this one ... just tried it with IE6 & Windows XP ... couldn't see big distortions ...

You gave yourself the answer I'm afraid......

Right click.....save the image THEN open it in Photoshop.


I see little querky stuff using "copy&paste" but nothing major. In short, If the image quality is that important, take the extra time to Save then Open.


and ummmmmm, yeah.... nice picture

Torn's suggestion is what I'd do as well. Though I can't say I've ever noticed weirdness with clipboard copy/pastes yet.

Could be some sort of color management/profile you have setup in PS, which makes it look different in PS than in other programs. I don't know really.