I've been a Mac user for awhile and this problem has not happened before. Whether I'm trying to insert a photo into a Word (on Mac) document or into an online source like atitesting.com, I can select the pic I want from Photos, but it will not activate/light up the "insert" button. Please help! Trying to get ready for teaching spring semester.
MacBook Air, macOS 15.1
bkeblen wrote: … This does work, but it is lower quality.
By golly, you're right! Most pictures I've tried end up being less than 1200 pixels across.
Drag & Drop, and copy & paste are not directly supported, and what they copy (original/edited, full sized/preview, etc) isn't specified. Just what's copied seems to change from OS to OS. Drag & Drop I know to check with each update, but I'm surprised by copy & paste. Since Photos has all sorts of versions of a picture available, copying might require a dialog page like Export has to make total sense.
The failure of the Photos picker in browsers has been a problem since Ventura, I think. No one knows why. So when I've needed to insert a picture, I've exported the image to a Finder folder, and inserted from there, like I referred to before. Export gives you much more control over what's inserted.
Another way to go, that I use a lot, is to take a screenshot. I use command-control-shift-4 ( ⌘⌃⇧4) to send a selection of a screen image to the clipboard, and then I paste it. You can get 2400 pixels across or more depending on the zoom, and that's a full page image at 300 dpi. This is also really fast.
What I've always done is just select a picture in Photos, use ⌘-c to copy it, and then pasted it into Word or Keynote or wherever I needed it. Does this not work for you?
I see that you can, in Word, choose Insert>Pictures>File, then choose Photos, and select a picture--seems harder to me…
Thank you!
I have discovered screenshots saved to finder lets me upload into the online sources I need.
I am a college professor and need to do this a lot. But what a pain!
Apple is better than this… or should be for their price.
This does work, but it is lower quality. And it does not work at all for uploading into applications. I cannot even email photos from my Mac
bkeblen wrote: … Apple is better than this… or should be for their price.
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Many of us have-- maybe on more will do the trick!
Photos does not activate insert button
