How to Save an Image from the Web (with Windows)

1) Place your cursor on the image and RIGHT click. A pop-up menu will appear. Choose Save Picture As... or Save Image as.. (depending on your browser).

A dialogue box will be seen, titled Save picture or Save as..

Your computer will probably want you to save the image in the My Documents folder. (This is an example of a default setting - something that your machine will do unless you tell it to do the job a different way.)

2) Choose Save. The image will be saved with the name (highlighted) that the webmaster has chosen. Notice that this name has no capital letters or spaces. Why? Well, web pages need image files named with lower case letters, and no spaces. Of course, when you save them, you don't have to worry about that.

More Details for Future Experts

If you want to give the file a new name before you save it, don't click Save. Just type the name that you want into the text bar. You will notice that the old name disappears when you start typing. O.K.? Now click Save.

Well done, you have saved the image as a certain type of file. The picture above is a JPEG image. Thumbnail images on this site, started out as JPEG files. Then, some of them were changed into GIF files. These different types of files are said to have different formats.

We change the format of an image when we want to use that image in a different way.

Another type of format that your computer likes to use is the bitmap. This format takes up more space. For this reason, it is not used on the web. Download times would be too long. But you could save the image above as a bitmap, if you have plenty of space in your computer.

How?

Look at the Save Picture dialogue box again by right clicking on the image above and choosing Save Picture as....or Save Image as....in the pop-up menu. Underneath File name in the Save Picture dialogue box is another text bar called Save as type. You will notice that your computer is ready to save the image above as a JPEG. (If you save one of the thumbnail images on the other pages, your computer will be ready to save it as a GIF.)

Click on the arrow head at the end of the text bar. A list of choices will drop down. One of those choices is bitmap. Click on bitmap to choose that format. Then click Save.

Congratulations! You are now an expert.