How to copy a page from a *.PSD file?

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How to copy a page from a *.PSD file?

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Hi!

I'm a user of XnView for Windows program (ver. 2.33).
I've tried to copy a page (layer) from a PSD file and paste it into another graphic editors but always fail.
I've tried to paste an image into Adobe Photoshop and into MS Paint with the same result - I get just a black rectangle.
It is really great that we can see each layer of PSD file with XnView and could you please explain me how to save a layer in a JPG file or just copy and paste it into a graphics editor?

Thanks for the great tool!
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Re: How to copy a page from a *.PSD file?

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Welcome to the forum, Talker (-:
  1. Go to Info » About... to find the INI file location.
  2. Quit XnView.
  3. Open xnview.ini in a text editor. (Windows Notepad will do.)
  4. Go to the [Start] section and add the following line:

    Code: Select all

    ClipboardNewMethod=0
  5. Save the changes.
  6. Restart XnView.
If you want to preserve the transparency of a layer, you have to use Tools » Multipage file » Extract All Into....
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Re: How to copy a page from a *.PSD file?

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I have inserted "ClipboardNewMethod=0" into xnview.ini and now copy /paste works perfect.

Also I was going to report about error when using "Extract All Into..." with some PSD-files, but then I've found this topic: Error saving PNG so I didn't

Thanks a lot :-)
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Re: How to copy a page from a *.PSD file?

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Thank you for reporting back!
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