

Repeat this process if it doesn’t work the first time.Ĭlipdiary is a great tool to use to verify if you’re actually capturing new screenshots or if there’s an error happening. If Photoshop or your image editor is open and active it will immediately paste the image into your editor. Right-click on your Clipdiary copied image and choose Paste to active window. For this step make sure Photoshop or your image editor is open and active. The thumbnail will appear to the side of the Clipdiary interface (not shown here).Ĥ. By clicking on the clipboard image you see a thumbnail of what you just copied to the clipboard. Now you should see the screenshot you have taken appear inside Clipdiary. That’s the function key located near the Windows Start button plus the delete key at the top of the keyboard.ģ. If you are using other types of keyboards like a Logitech wireless keyboard, you may need to press fn + del. The Print Screen Key is usually located at the top of the keyboard near the F-Lock key. Open the image you are trying to screenshot/copy to the clipboard. Pressing Ctrl + D opens Clipdiary on my PC.Ģ.

In the example, I am using Photoshop as the image editor I want to paste my screenshot into, but this probably works for other programs just as well.ġ. The following steps require you to download and install the latest version of Clipdiary. How to fix the screenshot problem: Print Screen key not copying to the clipboard The following steps may not apply to your particular situation, but I thought it might be worth sharing in case it helps somebody. This software allowed me to actually see (in real-time) every Print Screen Key image capture happening. Then from the software itself, I was able to paste the screenshot into Photoshop. I resorted to using 3rd party software called Clipdiary to first verify if my screenshot was being saved to the clipboard properly. I finally found a workaround to fix this problem. I had already taken several screenshots minutes before without any issues and then the last screenshot would not paste into Photoshop. I kept getting an older screenshot every time I attempted to paste a new screenshot into Photoshop. Basically, nothing new was being copied to the clipboard when I took a screenshot using the Print Screen Key. I’m still not entirely sure why this was happening and whether it was a Windows related issue, a faulty keyboard, or a weird Photoshop bug. I recently had a really annoying issue when I was trying to copy screenshots to the clipboard.
