Not really ground-breaking but here is a simple plug-in we created to allow you to copy a frame from After Effects to the system clipboard so you can paste it in a program like Photoshop. This saves you from having to render a frame to a file and then reopen it and apparently it is not a new idea but we made it 64-bit and cs5 compatible if anyone needs it. I was doing a lot of Photoshop work with
![Copy to Clipboard Plug-in for AE](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/534c37fc7e78f5d74e1e10471514c787a833fcdc/height=288;version=1;width=512/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.videocopilot.net%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F11%2FCOPY_TO_CLIP-1-150x150.jpg)