How Do I Save Images and Pictures?

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How do you save images posted on AW.org? A lot of the pics in this thread when clicked either left or right will not give me the option of saving them to a folder on my hard drive. I want to save the images for my own personal use. These pics mean a lot to me and I want to view them without having to archive the thread link.

 

 

 
Most of the websites I look at do let you right click and do a "Save Image" The ones that don't I have used this procedure for years. I used it when I was working to create software install documentation and software training courses. It is using the PrtSC button, I'm not sure if on all computers the function works the same way. I have had a Dell, IBM, and now Lenovo.

When You have a picture to capture on the screen hit PrtSc, my PC gives you a + cursor and you draw a box around what you want to save, it copies to the clipboard. I by habit paste it into a blank Microsoft Word document and then in Word it lets you right click and save the image to what you want, I default to a jpeg image.

I'm sure there are probably easier ways but this worked for me for over 20+ years so It's my habit. The only problem is if the whole picture doesn't fit on the screen.
 
Right click on the picture (must be on the picture) and select "Save Image As..."

I would select the "Full View Image" box first so the picture is of bigger size.
 
 
Something is odd about the pics in that thread.  There's no area on the first two in the first post that allows right-click/Save As*.  AW imaging auto-resizing also didn't work on the first two pics.  They're, respectively, 4,536px x 8,064px and 8,064px x 4,536px and display as such via the View Full Size checkbox.

*I saved all the pics yesterday.  I don't recall if the right-click issue was present then or if I used an alternative method available with Firefox.
 
Alternative solutions

1) Under the "File" menu of your browser choose "Save page as..." and then choose "Web Page, complete"; you will get an *.html file that you can happily ignore, and a folder with the same name as the *.html file; open this folder and you "should" find all the pictures in the page (there will be a lot, so you need to find the ones you are interested in)

2) Print the page from the browser on a *.pdf file (in the print preview check that the picture shows correctly) then you have a few options:
- NitroPdf (which should be free) had an option to extract all the pictures from a file
- if you open the *.pdf with LibreOffice Draw, you can right-click on the image and in the menu choose "Edit with external tool" which would open the image on an image editor

Hope this helps...
 
 
Firefox has a snipping/screenshot tool.

There's also Tools / Page Info / Media which provides a URL list of page images and a few other elements.  Find the URL of the image, a preview appears below with a Save As button, or copy/paste the URL into a new window/tab.
 
Thanks everyone!

 

@me: It worked, I changed the numbers in the URL address and it brought me to the correct full size pic with the ability to save it to my hard drive. I can't thank you enough. That Durex washer is truly beautiful. 
 
Re-Enable Context Menu

If you want to save an image on a website that deliberately disables the standard context menu, which doesn't seem to be the case on this site, one method is to use a bookmarklet (j a v a s c r i p t bookmark) to re-enable it.

To create a bookmarklet, create a bookmark, name it what you like, copy and paste the code from the page below to the new bookmark's address. You'll need to manually type in the "j a v a s c r i p t :" protocol (no spaces) because modern browsers block pasting it as a security issue.

 

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