So you’re browsing the web and come across an image that you want to save to your computer. There are various ways that you can go about doing this. For example, in Opera you can hold down the Control key and click on the image. You’ll then be prompted with the Save-As dialog just as you would have if you right-clicked on the image to save it.
As you may recall we had just written an article about dragging and dropping text/URL’s in Firefox. Well, a commenter who goes by the name “i2008″ pointed out that you can also drag images to your desktop to save them immediately. It works like a champ in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, and completely bypasses the Save-As dialog making it a quick way to save images.
Similarly you can also drag and drop hyperlinks to your desktop to create a bookmark/shortcut to that page. I did, however, find out that if an image is hyperlinked it will create a shortcut rather than saving the actual image.
If you’re using Firefox you could also look into installing the Image Toolbar extension (review) which provides buttons to save, print, and more when you hover over an image.
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I use this all the time… what I do is right-click and choose “View Image” so I know I’m on the right image… then I drag it to the desktop.
Here’s a fun tip for you… you can drag an image directly from Firefox into Windows Live Writer and it will be hotlinked to the original picture. (Of course you should only do this for images on your own site that you want to re-use)
I am a bit of a forum junkie and am always uploading pictures to imageshack.
If you have firefox and use imageshack or photobucket, you should download imagebot as soon as possible.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1174
It save me SOOOOO much time.
I use the Super DragAndGo extension in Firefox. Just left click on the image and drag a tiny bit and the Save as window pops up. No moving to to click on a button, no right-clicking and then selecting a menu item, no wacky key combinations needed.
I use an firefox extension called “Save Image in Folder”. It allows more than 1 custom folder destination, and several automatic renaming options. It’s real useful for me.
Has anyone tried Safari..I was using it last night and it has a very good option.
Right click on any image> Save on Desktop.
That’s it. No save as dialogue boxes..nothing.
I have already tried and love it. Thanks.
Huh, that is pretty slick. Thanks for the tip!
Imagebot is definitely a huge time saver you are posting images to public places quite frequently.
Huh, quite nifty for being an out-of-the-box feature. I guess you could use the extension that Okani recommended above to replicate that in Firefox though.