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Save Pictures from The Internet
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You can just drag and drop the image onto your desktop or into a folder then drag and drop it into iPhoto.
Right click on picture, save image as.
You may need to enable right click in sys preferences under mouse and keyboard (tap trackpad with 2 fingers for secondary click). This is a right click.
Then once you've saved it, open it up with iPhoto.
You may need to enable right click in sys preferences under mouse and keyboard (tap trackpad with 2 fingers for secondary click). This is a right click.
Then once you've saved it, open it up with iPhoto.
ok no offense to rawrmac this is just a rant.
why do some new Mac users feel the need to use Firefox straight away? this isnt Windows. the default browser Safari is very fast and lightweight and nothing like the unstansard, unsecure, ugly bloated IE.
ok im going to say that i did this and used Firefox for a while when i first used Macs but then i saw just how good Safari is and now i feel at home using it. but if you using Firefox for the familiarity or cant life without extensions then thats fine. i just love how Safari is integrated into the system for example:
in Safari you can simply right click and image and either download it, save it as, use it as your desktop or add it to your iPhoto library.
for Firefox the simplest way is to drag it to your desktop and then drag it onto the iPhoto dock icon. you can then delete it if you want as its been copied to your iPhoto library.
why do some new Mac users feel the need to use Firefox straight away? this isnt Windows. the default browser Safari is very fast and lightweight and nothing like the unstansard, unsecure, ugly bloated IE.
ok im going to say that i did this and used Firefox for a while when i first used Macs but then i saw just how good Safari is and now i feel at home using it. but if you using Firefox for the familiarity or cant life without extensions then thats fine. i just love how Safari is integrated into the system for example:
in Safari you can simply right click and image and either download it, save it as, use it as your desktop or add it to your iPhoto library.
for Firefox the simplest way is to drag it to your desktop and then drag it onto the iPhoto dock icon. you can then delete it if you want as its been copied to your iPhoto library.
I use firefox, and im new to the macbook, but I use it due to the familiarality off it, and adblock plus. I just like cruising the internet with some stupid advert saying @WHo is this American President, Barak Obama or McCain.
Sorry for thread stealing.
Sorry for thread stealing.
plugins...when I can use safari has noscript. IE is more secure then chrome and IE8 is probably just as fast and supports web standards.
I just tried doing just that, with a pic on my desktop...tried to drag and drop it into the iPhoto. It was rejected, saying something about it being in a format that iPhoto doesn't support? But it's a JPG, taken with the iMAC photo booth!
No way in hell. Make sure its really a .jpg
Check cmd+i "Get info" for that file. If its really jpg, then its corrupted file.
Under "name and extension" it says, and this is a cut and paste: Photo 11.jpg (JPEG Image, 640x480 pixels).fileloc
Easier just to drag the image from wherever onto your dektop and than you can re-drag it onto anything (an app, etc.) you want.
Safari has Safari AdBlock and SafariBlock, both of which do the same thing as AdBlock Plus in Windows.
The fileloc indicates it's a web link, not an image. Either you copied the link instead of the pic, or you didn't finish downloading the file.
Beats *me*. O well, thanks you guys. It's not working, but it's not urgent that it work at this point, either. BTW, I also have no idea why i'm not getting those Smilies to work, when i've enabled them in the User CP section.
This is *really* easy so don't give up that easy. Try this. Hold down control and click on the image. A menu should pop up and one of the options should be to save the image to disk.
I did *exactly* what you said. And whether i click on the thumbnail on the desktop, or the opened image itself, no such option is showing up on my screen. I'm getting choices like, open; open with; copy; make alias; and a bunch of others, none of which say save the image to disk.
Hey..all of a sudden the smilies started workin'! Maybe the moderator/webmaster saw my email.
I did *exactly* what you said. And whether i click on the thumbnail on the desktop, or the opened image itself, no such option is showing up on my screen. I'm getting choices like, open; open with; copy; make alias; and a bunch of others, none of which say save the image to disk.
Do what I said with the image on the webpage- not on the desktop.
drag the image onto iPhoto's icon from the desktop or even the webpage. cant get any easier than that… Mac style!
Sorry, i'm not following you. Image on =what= page? It's only on the desktop, and when i click on it it opens up..and nothing happens, even fewer options when i click on the pic itself.
Or you could do it the REALLY lazy/easy way and right click the picture and click "Add Image to iPhoto Library"! It's so simple how everything is integrated together!
^ thats only in Safari. thats why i asked why the OP just doesnt use Safari. i loves my integration.
OK guys, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I finally figured it out. It didn't go the way you were saying it would, but correct in that i'm using Firefox. Had to click on the image, then go up to the top to File, then save it to PHOTOBOOTH (there was NO SAVE TO IPHOTO OPTION), and then drag it down to the dock from there.
OK guys, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I finally figured it out. It didn't go the way you were saying it would, but correct in that i'm using Firefox. Had to click on the image, then go up to the top to File, then save it to PHOTOBOOTH (there was NO SAVE TO IPHOTO OPTION), and then drag it down to the dock from there.
Duh? You are making way more than needs to!
When you see an image on a webpage, using safari or firefox, just drag the image to your desktop. Make sure its a actual image (shows a thumbnail, ends with .jpg, .gif or .png, these are the most used onces) on desktop. Then you can drag it from desktop to the iphoto. No need to use photobooth!
The confusion is, the OP asked about saving images from the web, which was answered. mikeM247 was asking about using the drag and drop method for getting a picture from his desktop to iPhoto, but it sounds like he wasn't working with a picture, but a web link to a picture. If you drag a picture from the desktop and drop it on the iPhoto icon on the dock, it will open in iPhoto just fine.