Saving an Image from a Web Page

Using the resources below, you can easily find pictures that you can use in a variety of presentations. Be sure to note the Internet site’s name and address for appropriate citing later and comply with copyright instructions noted on the site.

  1. Locate an image from a web site.
  2. Right-click on the image (or for Macs, hold down the mouse button).
  3. Select Save Picture As or Save Image As (depending on your browser) with the Left mouse button (or for Macs, simply click on the selection).
  4. Locate or create an appropriate folder for images, such as “World War II Photos.”
  5. If the name that comes up automatically is not clearly identifying, type in a new file name. However DO NOT change the letters to the right of the period (.) -- .gif or .jpg. These letters must remain in order for your image to work correctly. If those extensions do not automatically show up on the file names, then you don’t have to worry about it—the extensions have been “hidden” so you can’t change them.
  6. Click once on Save.
  7. Save the source information in some type of Works Cited document.

Saving Information for Citing Purposes

The fair use clause of the Copyright Act allows some copying of copyrighted works for educational use, but you should always cite your source. According the Fair Use Guidelines for Multimedia, the copyright notice and the name of the creator of the image must be incorporated into the image so that it appears on the screen when the image is viewed.

Here’s a quick and easy way to get that copyright information into a document:

  1. To save the title of the Web page, select (click and drag across) the Web page title. (This will not work if the title is a graphic— in that case, you will have to type the title instead of following step 4.)
  2. From the browser’s Edit menu, select Copy (or press Ctrl-C—or Command-C).
  3. Open a new document in your word processing program.
  4. From the word processing program’s Edit menu, select Paste (or press Ctrl-V—or Command-V).
  5. Return to the Web page. Repeat the process with the creator’s name (if there is one listed).
  6. Return to the Web page. Click in the address field to select the URL address (it should be highlighted). (If a page is using frames, you must right-click on the framed page and then select Properties in the menu that appears in order to see the page's real Address. On a Macintosh, click and hold the mouse down on the framed page, and select Page Info from the menu to see the page's Location.) 
  7. From the browser’s Edit menu, select Copy (or press Ctrl-C—or Command-C).
  8. Return to your word processing program.
  9. From the word processing program’s Edit menu, select Paste (or press Ctrl-V—or Command-V).
  10. Save your document.
  11. Keep this file open so you can add more references to materials and resources that you have used from the Internet.

Image Resources

Assignment: Peruse at least two of the following sites for image resources. Copy an image that you can use in a Word document, and write a 3 paragraph paper on what you found helpful from these sites.

Image Search Engines

Proteus Image Search
http://www.thrall.org/proimage.html
A list of image search engines and image archives. Be sure to scroll down to see the full list.

Google Image Search
http://www.google.com/imghp
Also see links for Advanced Image Search and Image Search Help.

Altavista Image Search
http://www.altavista.com/image/default
Type in a key word to find photos, graphics, buttons and banners. Provides thumbnail pictures (small version that loads quickly) that you can click to go to the page with the original image. This image search engine is not filtered; students should not use it unsupervised.

Lycos Multimedia Search
http://multimedia.lycos.com/
Click the Pictures radial button. Provides thumbnail pictures.

Yahoo Picture Gallery
http://gallery.yahoo.com/
Search engine, but also includes categories for images. Provides thumbnail pictures.

  • Image Sites

Finding Images Online - Directory of Web Image Sites
 http://www.berinsteinresearch.com/fiolinks.htm
A starting point for image research on a variety of topics.

Corbis – The Place for Pictures
http://www.corbis.com/
Corbis is the leading provider of photography and fine art on the Internet. Some pictures are “royalty-free,” which means they are free for you to use. Others are “traditionally licensed” which are "rights protected" and have very limited “home use.” The following is the royalty-free portion of their site: http://www.corbisimages.com/search/ReadyToBuyEvents/fstDefault.asp

Microsoft Office Design Gallery Live
http://dgl.microsoft.com/
Clip art, animations, photographs, and other images to download. Also provides search engine for images.

The Best Information on the Net (BIOTN): Online Reference Resources
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Online/pictures.htm
Image Finders and All Purpose Picture Files.

Graphics Sources
http://www.net-ads.com/development/graphics.html
Nice list of links to graphics libraries with extensive annotations of each.

Mediabuilder.com: Web Tools to Design, Create, Animate
http://www.mediabuilder.com/index.html
One feature is to create a banner with your own text, then save the image as you would any other online image. The animation section is linked to Animation Factory at http://www.animationfactory.com/