How to easily create local copies of linked graphics

[wandern]

I’ve filed this as a bug report, because in both cases the clipboard contains the actual image data, and Obsidian only pastes the image data in one of the two cases. All other MacOS applications I can test that support graphics have identical behavior in both cases.

Image copy paste from browser adds link instead of attaching the image

Image paste behavior variance depending on source of copied image Steps to reproduce OS: MacOS Use case 1, step 1: Copy image data from a webpage (right click on an image, choose “copy”). Use case 2, step 1: Copy image data from a local MacOS application (right click on an image, choose “copy”). Step 2 (common to both use cases): Paste the image in Obsidian. In use case 1, cmd-v pastes a MD link to the URL of the copied graphic and shift-cmd-v pastes only the URL (no MD formatting). in us…