Drag & Drop images into photoshop

PSfan · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject: Drag & Drop images into photoshop

Hey guys I was wondering if its possible to drag an image from explorer directly into your current open canvas..Meaning: without opening a new document drag the image into your document that is currently open....

Normally I would do this: drag an image from explorer to Photoshop. Photoshop opens it as a new document. Then I drag that image into the desired canvas and than I need to close that document again...That's annoying big time..

I searched on the net..Couldnt find anything on this..But I read something about actions..I tried to make a droplet for this but didn't work..

Anybody has ideas on this??

Locton · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:

i am not sure why you are asking this question or i do not understand what you are trying to do.

why have you not tried it to see if it works, i have a mac & you can drag & drop images from i photo onto an open image in PS i used to have windows & i am sure i used to do this.

if i have got this wrong please tell me.

PSfan · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

No you don't understand...First of all i have a pc. But that doesnt matter because this issue occurs on a mac as well..

I can open an image but what photoshop does it makes a new document. If I have a document already open, I want to drag an image from explorere directly in my document that was open..Not in a new document...

Why am i asking this: Here's why:
Opening a new document is conusming a lot of memory in the first place and if you have opened like 3 stocks 4 c4ds and some other images for making a signature thats a lot of memory waste...Plus you have to close them all afterwards which is memory consuming as well..

So I need the "place" function of photshop when I drag my image into photoshop...

Ok hope its a bit clear now

moondog · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

So why not just COPY the image in IE and then paste onto the image you already have open. Wouldn't that do what you're asking? Or is there a specific need to be able to drag it and drop it?

PSfan · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

Nope..That doesnt work for transparent pictures. It makes transparent pictures non transparent...And Im not referring to internet explorer...Im referring to explorerer as in file manager..I cant copy a file and then paste into the document thats open..

Look what I'm looking at is the "place" function of photoshop...

Locton · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 4:46 pm Post subject:

Hi there i do realise that you have a pc & not a mac but why are you opening the images from file manager? when you say transparent are you referring to an image that does not have a background i.e. solid colour such as white if so when you open an image in PS it will always open non transparent if saved as a Jpeg it needs to be saved as a psd file or tiff.

PSfan · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:

I open my images from a filemanager because I have a ton of directories to quickly look up my resources and open them from the filemanager..This is way easier and because I like to drag and drop rather than open a dialog box and search for the item to open..

Locton · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:41 am Post subject:

Ok if thats your preference fine, when i had a pc i never opened images that way so i cannot explain why yo are having this problem.

the only thing i go back to is how are your images saved. as i said in my previous post if they are not in PSD or Tiff they will not open with a transparent background, so try saving in a different format to see if it works.

PSfan · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:34 am Post subject:

I tried that allready..Makes no difference

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