mmuehlba Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 How can you copy pictures off ebay ?? every time I try it will not let me ?? Mike For the record, here's one of the pix from ebay. Size is given as 9/16". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 What browser are you using. That is usually the problem. When I use Google Chrome it does not work but is never a problem with IE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 I generally use Firefox for browsing. Firefox won't let me save the pix. So when I want a pic, I go to Explorer. If that fails and I really really really want it, I take a screenshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 I use AOL Browser and sometimes IE - I just right click on the mouse and 'save picture'. Sometimes, like with pics on this board, you have to move the mouse to a certain spot in the picture before right clicking to save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okiemudman Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 I generally use Firefox for browsing. Firefox won't let me save the pix. So when I want a pic, I go to Explorer. If that fails and I really really really want it, I take a screenshot. Steph, I don't what the problem is with your setup but I use Firefox exclusively and have no trouble downloading pics. Another small program I use to take portions of a screen shot is Snipping Tool from Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy cooper Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Steph, I don't what the problem is with your setup but I use Firefox exclusively and have no trouble downloading pics. Another small program I use to take portions of a screen shot is Snipping Tool from Microsoft. I can usually grab pictures from almost anywhere and just drag them to my desk top...no copy , paste, download or anything just grab (click on them) and drag (while still holding your mouse key down pull the picture to your desk top and drop it there)...try it...Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Are you able to download pix from ebay? I can download pix from lots of places but not from ebay. Well, not from Marble Connection either for that matter. I mean not from the Marble Connection attachments. I could right click and download the photo above. But if I want to get an attached photo from MC I have to go back to Explorer. edit: Oh wait .... you said drag. I haven't tried dragging. Let me check that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 No, I couldn't figure out how to drag the pix at ebay. Used this auction to test it out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300484793652 But I did finally see what Al saw with the images here at MC. I right clicked on the correct spot I guess and I was able to save a pic. I'm not quite sure where the correct spot is. lol. Tried to replicate it on another pic and failed. But went for it again on a 3rd pic and got it. edit: when I right clicked on that pic at ebay, I got an option to View Selection Source. Some code popped up. In the code there was a .jpg address. I copied the address, pasted it in another window and the picture came up. And I was able to right click and save it from there. *whew deep breath* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bocci Posted November 2, 2010 Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 Mike, Instead of just right clicking on the picture try right and left clicking at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted November 2, 2010 Report Share Posted November 2, 2010 I generally use Firefox for browsing. Firefox won't let me save the pix. So when I want a pic, I go to Explorer. If that fails and I really really really want it, I take a screenshot. I use Firebox with DownloadHelper plugin for capturing media from "problem" pages. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted November 3, 2010 Report Share Posted November 3, 2010 I can usually grab pictures from almost anywhere and just drag them to my desk top...no copy , paste, download or anything just grab (click on them) and drag (while still holding your mouse key down pull the picture to your desk top and drop it there)...try it...Nancy ha! thats cool! I never know you could drag photos to your desktop like that. Thanks nancy, thats a cool tip. Worked for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy cooper Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 ha! thats cool! I never know you could drag photos to your desktop like that. Thanks nancy, thats a cool tip. Worked for me. I like it when things work....I use Explorer, Firefox, & Chrome. Drag and drop works with all of them most of the time. Sometimes the picture may be 'trapped' as part of something else (an element, a PDF file etc...)and not saved as an image or a jpeg which may be the case with some of the E-bay pics but not most of them. Some of those you can drag (or copy and paste)into a blank document or into a G-mail message window (I don't think other e-mails have the drag and drop to download feature)and retrieve them from there. Another thing that helps copy difficult files is to download a free program called 'Cute PDF Writer' then when you have something you want copied (like a screen shot) you press the keys 'control' and 'P' at the same time which is the command to print and Cute PDF Writer will come up as one of your printer options, select it and then instead of printing save the file or picture or whatever where ever you want on your PC. But plain old drag and drop works about 95% of the time. I tried it on Marble Connection a minute ago. All pictures even Avatars drag and drop. That's how people take your photos and things from Face Book and My Space and that's probably how all the marble pictures that belonged to others ended up on that 'creep' guys page. That pop up window you got on the one picture was probably the URL address (a link) where the picture is stored online. When you see that you often have a second option to choose the image HTML which will give you the picture. (Photobucket will let you add HTML code to get a picture)....okay, that's probably more than you wanted to know....LOL...Have a great night...Nancy PS please ignore all the huge run on sentences...I'm too tired to edit tonight... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nancy cooper Posted November 4, 2010 Report Share Posted November 4, 2010 Another PS...when you click and hold down to drag it is a regular click NOT right click...hope that helps...Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clydetul62 Posted November 7, 2010 Report Share Posted November 7, 2010 In Steph's case she needed to left click to enlarge. Then right click to "save as" or save. If you do "save as" it lets you name the pic at same time and where you can select where it can go. For "problem" pic like auctiva protection the press the right and left click at same time usually works. it does take practice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted November 8, 2010 Report Share Posted November 8, 2010 This happens on certain auctions with google chrome, I haven't figured out how to get around it other than swithching to another browser.There is only that one choicr available in the Save as,type box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaliman Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 Hi guys if anyone is using a mac i can offer a tip. I have also found that it was difficult to grab pics from ebay when they recently changed their format. Unless the auction has images saved within the body of the auction messages, simply right clicking and doing a "save as" will not work. Most cases the seller (like Alan/marblealan) will generally just use the photo container option just to the left of the auction title as the sole image representation instead of providing it within the message body. This container when clicked will show you an enlarged image of the smaller format. If the seller has more than one image they will be displayed clickable in the right frame. This "jpeg" image is supplied through some kind of flash container and is not saveable via traditional methods. I have found a workaround to extract the images as follows. Download a free copy of a popular note clipping "clouding" app called Evernote. This app sits as an app on your computer and also sets an extension in your browser (except google chrome which has a limited variation of it). Once installed when right clicking on the enlarged image within the container an option to "Add Page to Evernote" will be displayed in a pop-up window. The provided page in Evernote now provides an extractable image that is saveable by traditional means. Hope this helps. ~ Tony p.s extracted image supplied below from said auction as a example Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleus1 Posted December 2, 2011 Report Share Posted December 2, 2011 Always click the enlarge on ebay first, then copy. david Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted December 2, 2011 Report Share Posted December 2, 2011 In Firefox I use a free add-on called FireShot. It adds an icon in your right click pop up menu and allows you to select an area and save it as a JPG. It is a screen grabber program but you don't have to capture the entire screen. Works great. Go to the addon website and search for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted December 2, 2011 Report Share Posted December 2, 2011 'view source' always works if you can read code - just look for the url of the wanted image - copy it and paste into a new window - open and save. This is how I save images loaded within ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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