How to copy & save images from a webpage / website ?

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Many of us tend to copy and save images from different websites on the internet (specially from entertainment and celebrity websites). There are number of basic and advanced methods to copy and save images.

Easy right click method

Right click on image you want to copy, then click ‘Save Image As’. Then select folder or location where you want to save the image. Click on save button and its all done. Alternatively, you can right click and click on copy option. Then open any folder, right click and then click on paste option. You can double click on that file to preview and see copied image.

copy-paste-images

Above method may not work when right click is disabled on specific websites. Alternatively, you can save whole webpage and then copy images of your choice. With webpage opened, goto File > Save As, then browse and copy selected images. Other way, with webpage opened press Ctrl + A (Edit > Select all), then open MS Word and press Ctrl + V to paste contents of that webpage.

Quick tools to save images

You can use File2HD website to download images on the fly. Just enter website URL, select images option and download any image on the webpage. If you use Firefox web browser, then install ‘Download Save Images’ plugin to download images from any website quickly.

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