Copy and paste clipboard images into After Effects & Photoshop.

  ✨  Copy Paste images from Clipboard into After Effects and Photoshop!  ✨ 

Tired of the hassle of saving, dragging, and dropping images into your projects?

Introducing our game-changing extension – the ultimate solution for seamless image importing!

Effortless Clipboard Integration:
Copy an image while browsing the web, open our extension, and Ctrl+V your way to instant project integration.

️Transparent PNG Support in Photoshop:
Our extension enables Ctrl+V for transparent PNGs, eliminating the frustration of unsupported clipboard actions.

Flexible Saving Options:
Choose where you save whether it’s your desktop, documents, the project file location, or a custom path.

Supported formats:

PNG + ALPHA (Transparency) , PNG, JPG, WEBP, JFIF, BASE64, AVIF, GIF (First frame)

Unsupported formats:

GIF  (ANIMATION), SVG, EPS, Ai, CDR, TIFF, PDF, BMP, RAW

️Setup:

•  You can install using the zxp installer.

• In After Effects, enable ‘Allow Scripts to Write Files and Access Network’ in Edit > Preferences > Scripting and Expressions

⚙️Usage:

• Create  New Composition

• Go  Window  >  Extensions  >  imgPasterAE

• Select  Timeline panel (If you want to paste image on it)

• Copy your image to clipboard (from web browser or other applications).

• Click on extension window area so it is  highlighted .  Hold Ctrl + V  (⌘ + V MAC)

• Your image will be generated and imported into the project and placed on the timeline.

Settings:

Will generate an image file from the clipboard that can be saved in:

• Desktop
• Documents folder
• Same as open project file (Opened project required to be saved)
• Custom path
  
  

Extension shortcut:

For faster usage, create a keyboard shortcut.
• Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
• Find imgPaster, click on area under Shortcut column and press keys to add new shortuct.

Version 

Made using CEP8. Requires CC 2018+ version of After Effects (15+).

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