[cjq999]

This is a newbie question. I'm trying to save a picture of a sofa from a website. I tried control + click to save picture or save as, but it didn't work. It works with other websites but not this particular web page.

[mdc]

can you link to the website?

normally, i just click and drag the image to my desktop

[f1000]

Try taking a screen capture.

[Love Calm Quiet]

Screen capture or partial screen (command-shift-4) is great, but sometimes it's handy to break down a javascripted paged (like Amazon's view inside of books) sites into separate pages. Someone here once showed me the following JS to paste in your address bar (or: I've got it bookmarked now) and it'll open each item in separate Safari window - and those that are jpgs will be drag-droppable to desktop. Let's see if this will paste below in this post:

javascript:%20for%20(var%20i=0;%20i%20<%20si_image Metadata.length;%20i++)%20{var%20win%20=%20window. open('','',%20'');%20win.document.write('<img%20sr c="'%20+%20si_imageMetadata[i].src%20+%20'">');}

[chabig]

You can turn off Javascript in Safari preferences and then the site will let you save the pictures. It's a script that's foiling your attempts.

Chris

[Love Calm Quiet]

Not in ALL situations. For my difficult Amazonn cases ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0876...36#reader-link ) the JS access of metadata (script above) requires JS be ON: then the page above opens into 40+ Safari pages for different objects, including the jpgs for various book jpg pages, which can then be dragged as you wish.

[Gavin]

Under the windows menu choose "activity"

You'll see a list of every item loaded on the web page. double click a pic to open it in a new window, then you can drag it to the desktop from there. Or use "save image to downloads", or copy it and paste it into Preview, or use your favorite saving method.

It may not be a script, you can use table background images as well as other tricks to make pix hard to get, so simply killing javascript may not do it.

[chris v]

Originally Posted by Gavin

Under the windows menu choose "activity"

You'll see a list of every item loaded on the web page. double click a pic to open it in a new window, then you can drag it to the desktop from there. Or use "save image to downloads", or copy it and paste it into Preview, or use your favorite saving method.

Whoa, handy tip.

[CaptainHaddock]

Another common trick some websites use is to make a one-pixel transparent gif and stretch it on top of the entire image below, so that's the image that gets saved.

And in the case of an image that's broken into many pieces (more common on old table-based pages), you can just shift-cmd-4 to take a screenshot of an area of your choosing (as Love Calm Quiet mentioned).