Copy/Pasting internet photos

Fabie,

Here's a cool Mac trick. Click and hold the cursor on the image within the web page. Drag it to the desktop. In most cases it will appear as a JPEG file.

Open a Word document. Go to Insert, Picture, From File. Select the image and it will be pasted into your document.

Welcome to the Discussions, Fabie.

How are you copying? Try this:

Without selecting anything, hold "control" on the keyboard and click on the image. Select "Copy Image" from the menu that appears. Paste into the Office document. If that fails, control-click again and select "Save Image to Desktop". Then try to import the image into the document.

Good luck.

I would like to PREVENT viewers from copying or downloading images from my web page. A friend has either a code or program to disallow windows users from doing it, but I can still download and copy from that same page with my Mac. Anyone know how to prevent both Windows and Mac users from swiping my pictures?

You can't. Even if you use HTML or JavaScript code to block any method of downloading the images through the browser's interface, someone could take a screenshot of the browser window while the picture is displayed.

In order to block someone from downloading the images through the browser, you could set the web server to tell the browser not to cache the images, and then check whether the referer is a page which links to the graphic. Some people may have blocked their browser from sending a referer, and this method won't work if someone takes a screenshot as mentioned above.

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Brian,

There is a way as I can't use the Cool Mac Trick on every image. Find a hot HTML code jockey and you'll probably find a way to do it.

That's right. I forgot about cmd-opt-4. One thing I did discover is you can't use cmd-opt-4 while a DVD is playing. Obviously Apple blocked it because of copyright issues.