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Troubleshooting a dimmed Paste command

Troubleshooting a dimmed Paste command

From the course: No Drawing Necessary: Custom Shapes in Photoshop

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Troubleshooting a dimmed Paste command

- [Instructor] All right, now let's see how to troubleshoot the copy and paste process because it can get very broken and so here I am inside Photoshop once again. I'll go up to the window menu and choose the shapes command to bring up that shapes panel and this time I'm going to twirl open this group called spiral shapes down here and I'll go ahead and grab this shape, shape 169 and I'll drag it and drop it into the image window and I'll go ahead and scale it to whatever size they like and I'll press the enter key or the return key on the Mac to accept that new shape layer. All right, now I'll hide the shapes panel and notice at least in this version of Photoshop, that every time you place the shape, the program returns control to the move tool up here at the top of the toolbox and so it's very tempting just to go up to the edit menu and choose the copy command or press that keyboard shortcut of control+C or command+C on…

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