How Do I Save Images and Pictures?

[Chetlaham]

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.

 

 

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?95403_8~1

 

[parunner58]

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.

 

[qsd-dan]

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.

 

[me]

The context menu seems to work for me, but

first set of images url is (change last number to get image 1 through 8)

https://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/JPEG/BASKET/2024/20240304/tinbarreiro-2024030410304602844_1.jpg

second

https://www.automaticwasher.org/TD/JPEG/BASKET/2024/20240304/tinbarreiro-2024030415433005813_1.jpg

 

[DADoES]

 
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.

 

[Chetlaham]

Yup- thats my issue. The right click option of "save as" isn't available for all the pics. 

 

[vacbear58]

Although not necessarily an ideal solution on Windows computers you could use the Snipping Tool to take a "snapshot" of the picture which you can then save wherever you like in which ever format you wish

 

[Chetlaham]

@me: I'm going to try your method and see if it works! Much thanks ahead of time!

 

[donprohel]

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...

 

[DADoES]

 
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.

 

[Chetlaham]

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. 

 

[me]

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.