importing to Photoshop directly from the web

[Peter_D_D_Samuel@adobeforums.com]

I can readily drag an image off the web from my browser into MS Word or into a text editor. But when I open a blank document in Adobe Photoshop (and Adobe Illustrator) they won't accept the dragged item. This seems to me very odd. The image is probably composed using Photoshop yet I have to use roundabout methods to get it back into Photshop if I want to work on it in Photoshop again, say to crop it, change the file size or dimensions. There must be a trick I am missing. How do I mostly directly import a file from the web browser into Photoshop?
Peetr Samuel TOLLROADSnews tel 301 631 1148

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Drag the image to your Desktop.
Double-click to open it.
Double click the Background Layer to make it an ordinary layer.
Then Drag & Drop the image onto an open Photoshop document.

But why are you doing this?

Please remember that the Copyright of almost every image on the Web is owned by someone!

[JasonSmith@adobeforums.com]

Or from your browers - control>click on the image. select copy image to clipboard.

go to PS, hit cmd>N, the new image dialoge is automatically sized to the image in the clipboard, cmd>C to paste the clipboard image into your new document.

[Ann_Shelbourne@adobeforums.com]

Jason's method is faster.

I have been doing it the other way because I have needed to build what are known as "Preview Ads." which are on-line Ads that are linked-back to specific pages on the Advertiser's own website.

I just drag all the useful images from their site into a layered Photoshop document and then build their series of Preview Ads using various composites of those images.