Semalt Advice - Downloading Images From Websites

While using a computer in everyday life, there is often a situation where we want to save a photo or an image from the Internet to our computer. But you might have noticed that sometimes for some reason you can't do it in the usual way.

An image can be surely downloaded from the Internet, even when the content of the website is copy-protected, or the right mouse button is locked. In this article, we will show you how to download any images and photos from any website.

Our task: to download an image from a website and save it on your computer.

What we need: any Internet browser.

While attempting to download images from different websites, there are two most common obstacles that we will consider in this article:

1. Copying and downloading an image that is copy-protected or there is no "Save picture as ...";

2. Copying and downloading an image from websites where the right mouse button is disabled.

These are the main difficulties that you may encounter while downloading an image or a photo from the Internet.

In this article, Google Chrome will be used, but in the other browsers, the principle is pretty similar.

No "Save Picture As"

Sometimes images on a website can't be downloaded in the standard way - "Save picture as ...". The reason for this can be: a prohibition of using a script to download or copy material, on the website page our image is considered as a layer () and not as an element - an image ().

To download this image, click the right mouse button on the image you need and in the pop-up menu select "Inspect element" or "View source." After clicking on it, an additional window will appear in which the program will immediately select the element we need. On the right in this window there is an additional section with tabs - "Style, Computed ...", in it we can see a link to an image or a photo. Click on this link with the right mouse button and select "Open link in new tab". The program will open a new tab (window) with an image you need. Now, all we need is to download this image or photo to our computer in an ordinary way - with "Save as..." feature.

Right Mouse Button Is Disabled

It's a bit rarer and more complicated variation, but it also happens that a website blocks right mouse button.

To download an image from the protected page, press the "F12" on the keyboard. An additional window called "Developer Tools" will open. Next, in this tool, find the "Network" tab and click on it, the contents of the tab will change. To make it easier to find an image we need, click on the icon with the image of the funnel ("Filter"), after that a line for sorting the elements on the page will be available for us. Now we need to click on the "Images" button so that only images and photos are displayed in the field below.

Our filter is ready to find and save an image we need. You need to update the website page ("F5" key on the keyboard). Now the "Network" field will display information about the images for download. Scroll through this list to find our image in a smaller version.

Now, all we have to do is open this image in a new window to save it on our computer. Click the right mouse button on the name of this image (it's displayed to the right of the thumbnail) and in the pop-up menu select "Open link in new tab". Here you go, that's your image ready for "Save as...".

Conclusion

Now downloading an image or photo from any website won't be difficult for you. From now on you know at least two ways to solve this problem which occurs in the everyday use of the computer. Hope this article was useful for you!

Also, don't forget that you should not abuse downloading and copying of images or photos from websites, as each image or photo can have an author and they have copyright.