Saving an image from a website

julian_shaw

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that's just annoying old fashioned stuff that web designers used to do back in the 1950s. very irritating.

if you use firefox, activate web developer tools. in there is a menu called images, with a function "image information". it will show you all the images that make up a web page. (it does on my version of firefox anyway!)

or, for most browsers, try edit, select all, ctrl+c, then paste the whole lot into a word document. you'll perhaps need to get rid of a lot of stuff, but it should work.

hope this helps.
 
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Also note that the images might be part of the CSS, set as background images and all sorts of other coding options.

They haven't disabled right click, it's just the the browser only reports what it sees - if the image is not 'on the page' then the menu only list the available options.
 
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right click,save image worked for me!!!! cant see what your problem is...now got a picture i dont want
Agree but is doesn't work on all the images - try to do it for the logo and the 'save image as' option isn't shown.
 
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julian_shaw

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Also note that the images might be part of the CSS, set as background images and all sorts of other coding options.

They haven't disabled right click, it's just the the browser only reports what it sees - if the image is not 'on the page' then the menu only list the available options.

absolutely. the logo is in the image info on this page, so i didn't get into all that css stuff! but this is really good general advice. the main point is to use firefox web developer tools.
 
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Just use a screen grabber. A good free one is PicPick.

(It comes with 3 free 'get out of jail' passes for copyright theft...):)

Have you ever looked at your keyboard?

PRTSCN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Press it, load MSPaint/Photoshop/PaintShopPro and Paste.

VOILA!

If for some irritating clever reason the developer of the website has simply 'disabled' print screen button while viewing that page, simply click your start menu or taskbar, so that the browser window is inactive (greyed/out of focus) and print screen!

Simple.

Why get something you've already got?

Also, if an image is in the background of a page, Firefox has "View background image" on the right click menu.

:^)
 
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Sorry. Didn't realize "PRTSCN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" could also be used to chose a specific area, or a rolling web page, with and without links. Silly moi. :rolleyes:

Oh! I see! My stupid cocky assumption was slightly void then!
I thought it was just a 'picture taker'.

But then,
Why not Print the page as PDF?
You can use either Adobe's built in Print as PDF feature (I forget which software it comes with, I think the full Acrobat package)

Or you can use this free one: http://www.pdf995.com/
You install the two tiny little programs (one is the printer driver so that windows can identify it as a printing method, one is the PDF creator itself)

When you choose to print - anything, a word document, a picture, a photo, a web page - it goes through the normal print dialog, choose PDF995 and then click OK. Once the program loads, it'll ask where to save, and you're sorted.

It comes as a free or paid versions, the free version does have sponsor advertisements, but they're safe, and just a simply case of closing them after the 'printing' is complete.
When saving a web page, it automatically puts the page title and URL at the top of the page - no copyright infringment.

Also, if you have Photoshop, I'm not sure if PDF files can be open in any other image editing software - you can then use the PDF like an image and crop out or slice out what you want.
Bit like old school days when you cut out magazines and stuck the cut-outs on paper...
Just another way!

Although I do admit, the "specific area" and link features of your suggestion Dawg could be handy. But you can always crop/slice out images from another image if you want specific bits with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, even Paint, but Paint is just fiddly.
 
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