So you need to edit an image on your desktop and use it on the presentation you’re making on Google Slides. Sure, you can just go ahead with modifying the photo, saving it, and then uploading it to Slides. But what if you want to avoid cluttering your storage with duplicate files and edited pictures you’ll only need once? The good news is there’s an option not to save every picture you edit on the Photos app. You can just copy the edited image to your clipboard to be used anywhere else. To do so, follow these steps:
- Open your image in Photos.
- Click on Edit to go to the editor screen.
- Start modifying your image as you wish. The Photos app features basic photo-editing tools like crop, flip, rotate, light and color correction (e.g., brightness, saturation, tint), filters, markup, Generative Erase, and background editor (blur, remove, replace).
- After editing the photo, click on the Save options button at the top.
- Select Copy to clipboard.
- Exit the Photos app without saving the edited image.
To use the copied image, simply press Ctrl + V where you need it, such as a Word document or a social media post. If, however, you copied multiple images and need them all, you can pull up the Windows clipboard by pressing Win + V and select the edited photos from there.
