WobblePic v1.5.3 adds the thing that dragging an image out of a browser never quite managed: copy a picture anywhere, press Ctrl+V, and it opens in WobblePic. Two smaller fixes come along with it, both leftovers from v1.5.2.

Paste an image with Ctrl+V

Copy an image — from a browser, a screenshot tool, an image editor, anywhere that puts a picture on the clipboard — switch to WobblePic and press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on macOS). The image is saved as a PNG to Pictures/WobblePic Pasted and opens right away, ready to wobble.

Copying a file still does what it always did. Files copied in Explorer or Finder are pasted into the folder you are looking at, exactly as before. The image path only runs when the clipboard holds no files, so nothing you were doing with Ctrl+V changes.

Why a folder of its own

Pasted images do not land in the folder you have open. Ctrl+V means show me this, not write a file into my photo library — and the folder on screen may well be read-only. They do not go into the recordings folder either, or clips and stills would bury each other. So they get a sibling of the recordings folder, under Pictures, where they are easy to find and easy to clear out.

They are saved as PNG because a clipboard bitmap is lossless, and JPEG would degrade it on arrival. When the clipboard already holds a PNG — which is what browsers put there — the bytes are written out exactly as they were copied, without being decoded and re-encoded. The source’s bit depth and colour profile survive, and it is fast: pasting a 1920×1080 screenshot took 217 ms during development before that change, and 4 ms after it.

Where the picture comes from

On Windows, WobblePic reads the clipboard’s PNG format first, then falls back to the plain bitmap that Paint and most screenshot tools provide. On macOS it asks the pasteboard for PNG, then TIFF, which covers Preview and the built-in screenshot flow. Either way the same picture comes back — that is tested with real clipboard round trips on both platforms.

Why the clipboard and not drag and drop

Dropping an image from a browser has never worked, and it is not a bug we can fix: browsers hand over virtual files that the windowing layer WobblePic is built on never surfaces. The clipboard reaches almost all of the same use for a fraction of the risk, which is why it is the route we took.

One limitation

An animated GIF cannot come through the clipboard as an animation — the system hands over a single frame. If you want it to move, copy the GIF file and paste that, or drag it in.

Folder names in the file list, too

v1.5.2 taught the folder tree to show the names your file manager uses — 사진 rather than Pictures on a Korean Windows. The file list underneath it was still showing the raw names, which is worse than not localising at all: the same folder carried two names in one panel. Both now match.

Renaming still edits the folder’s real name on disk, and the path header at the top of the panel still shows the real path — that field is what people copy out, and C:\Users\me\사진 does not exist.

Also fixed

  • “Encoding image…” no longer sits on screen forever when WobblePic opens in a folder that has no images in it. Encoding never starts when there is nothing to encode, so the overlay had nothing to wait for. This only became reachable once v1.5.2 started reopening your last folder.
  • A fresh install no longer logs a failure on its first launch just because the settings file did not exist yet. A missing file now says so; a real problem still gets a warning with a traceback.

Download

WobblePic v1.5.3 is free for Windows and macOS.

  • Windows 10/11 — WobblePic_Setup_1.5.3.exe
  • macOS (Apple Silicon) — WobblePic-1.5.3-arm64.dmg
  • macOS (Intel) — WobblePic-1.5.3-x64.dmg

Grab it from the Download page. Then copy something and press Ctrl+V.