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This How.com.vn teaches you how to save a picture from a message, document, or the Internet to your MacBook computer.
Things You Should Know
- Press Control and click the image you want to save. Click Save Image to "Downloads". Your image will be saved to your download folder.
- Click and drag the image onto your desktop.
- Not all websites will allow you to save or download images. Instagram, for example, does not allow you to save images from the app.
Steps
Go to a photo that you want to save. Open the message, document, or web page that contains the photo you'd like to save on your MacBook.- Not all web pages permit images to be saved or downloaded. For example, you can't download pictures from the Instagram website.
Open the image if necessary. If the image is in a preview format (e.g., a result on Google), you'll first need to click the image to open it in full-size view.- Some images, such as occasional images inserted into articles, serve as links to other pages. If clicking an image opens an unrelated page, click your browser's "Back" button to return to the original image.
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Place your Mac's mouse pointer on the image. Your mouse pointer should be sitting on top of the image that you want to save.
Open the context menu. Hold down the Control key, click the image, and then release the Control key. A pop-up menu should appear on or near the image.- You have to hold down Control for the entire duration of the click, or the menu won't appear.
- On some MacBooks, you can click and hold the picture to prompt the pop-up window to appear.
- You can also try "right-clicking" the picture by pressing your Mac's trackpad button with two fingers, or by pressing the right side of the trackpad button on some MacBooks.
Click Save Image to "Downloads". It's in the context menu. This will prompt the photo to download immediately into your Mac's "Downloads" folder, which is usually a folder literally named "Downloads".- If you're using a browser other than Safari, you can click Save Image As instead. This option will allow you to select a name and a specific download location for the file before you download it.
- You can open the "Downloads" folder by opening Finder (the blue, face-shaped app icon) and then clicking Downloads on the left side of the window.
- If you set your Mac's default "Downloads" folder to a different folder (e.g., the "Desktop" folder), you'll find the image there instead.
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Go to a photo that you want to save. Open the message, document, or web page that contains the photo you'd like to save on your MacBook.- Not all web pages permit images to be saved or downloaded. For example, you can't download pictures from the Instagram website.
Open the image if necessary. If the image is in a preview format (e.g., a result on Google), you'll first need to click the image to open it in full-size view.- Some images, such as occasional images inserted into articles, serve as links to other pages. If clicking an image opens an unrelated page, click your browser's "Back" button to return to the original image.
Resize your browser window. Click the yellow circle in the upper-left corner of the window that contains the image. This makes the window smaller so that your Mac's desktop is visible.
Click and drag the photo onto your desktop. Click and hold the image with your mouse pointer, then drag the image off of the edge of your browser window until it's suspended over the desktop.- You should see a transparent version of the image appear when you drag it away.
Release the click. When you see a white + in a green circle appear over the thumbnail of the picture, release the click you were holding. This will place the image file on your desktop.
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- If you encounter a photo which can't be saved, you can still take a screenshot of the photo.Thanks
- Creating folders on your computer is a great way to organize photos and make them easier to find.Thanks
- Rename photos when you save them. Doing so will make the images easier to find when you want to locate them on your Mac.Thanks
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Warnings
- Never use other people's photos in your own content without their explicit, written permission.Thanks
- Some photos cannot be downloaded from their webpages or sources.Thanks
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This article was co-authored by How.com.vn staff writer, Jack Lloyd. Jack Lloyd is a Technology Writer and Editor for How.com.vn. He has over two years of experience writing and editing technology-related articles. He is technology enthusiast and an English teacher. This article has been viewed 987,770 times.
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Updated: December 22, 2023
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Categories: MacBook
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1. Go to the photo you want to save.
2. Hover the cursor over the image.
3. Click the image while pressing the control key.
4. Click Save Image to "Downloads"
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