PainShop Pro 9 - Paste as a New Layer

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Paste as a New Layer

Shadow

2005-04-30, 7:48 am

I have psp9.01. The problem I have is when I copy a picture then go to my
active picture and try to paste as a new layer the fly out menu is all
grayed out. This only way I can fix it is to reboot my computer. Is this a
bug or is there a fix for this. There doesn't seem to be any particular
pattern to this. Sometimes I can do quite a few projects with no problems,
then sometimes I can do a few projects and then it won't paste as a new
layer and I have to reboot. Sometimes it happens when I first open up psp. I
clean out my cache on a regular basis, that was what I was told to do by the
groups I am in but that doesn't work. Why do I get this problem and how do
you fix it please?
Thanks,
Kayleen

Fred Hiltz

2005-04-30, 7:34 pm

Shadow wrote:
> I have psp9.01. The problem I have is when I copy a picture then
> go to my active picture and try to paste as a new layer the fly
> out menu is all grayed out. This only way I can fix it is to
> reboot my computer. Is this a bug or is there a fix for this.

No one has reported that here as far as I know. One thing that can
disable the Edit > Paste fly-out menu is an active image of reduced
color depth. Look at the right end of the status bar for "16
million" or "256 (grey)." Anything else there? Image > Increase
Color Depth > 16 million.

That menu is also disabled when the clipboard does not contain an
image.

Neither of these seems likely if you have to reboot to clear the
problem, but they are easy to check. When it happens, try pasting
into another image program like IrfanView or MS Paint. If that
works, the clipboard is good. If that does not work, look for what
is messing with the clipboard. Do you run any utilities that extend
the clipboard to multiple entries, etc.?

Can you think of anything special about the times when the sporadic
problem surfaces? Other programs running, heavy load on memory,
extra-large images, a waning gibbous moon?
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
C-Tech volunteer

Shadow

2005-04-30, 7:34 pm

The pictures I was using were both 16 millions colors, I didn't know how to
use the other programs to cut and paste, but when I copied one picture in
psp I noticed the clipboard would show up and then go gray right away. I
check in my task bar and I have a program called clipper that does screen
capture but it didn't have anything in it, I closed it out and now I have my
paste new layer back. I never would have thought that would interfere with
psp. It wasn't being used. I guess I just won't run it unless I need it then
close it down when I'm done. Thanks so much for your help. I wasn't quite
sure how to troubleshoot the problem.
Kayleen

"Fred Hiltz" <not@home.ca> wrote in message news:4273686b$1_3@cnews...
>
> Shadow wrote:
>
> No one has reported that here as far as I know. One thing that can
> disable the Edit > Paste fly-out menu is an active image of reduced
> color depth. Look at the right end of the status bar for "16
> million" or "256 (grey)." Anything else there? Image > Increase
> Color Depth > 16 million.
>
> That menu is also disabled when the clipboard does not contain an
> image.
>
> Neither of these seems likely if you have to reboot to clear the
> problem, but they are easy to check. When it happens, try pasting
> into another image program like IrfanView or MS Paint. If that
> works, the clipboard is good. If that does not work, look for what
> is messing with the clipboard. Do you run any utilities that extend
> the clipboard to multiple entries, etc.?
>
> Can you think of anything special about the times when the sporadic
> problem surfaces? Other programs running, heavy load on memory,
> extra-large images, a waning gibbous moon?
> --
> Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
> C-Tech volunteer
>
>