How to download images from the Internet

There are many images on the Internet available for downloading. Before you copy an image from somebody's page, please make sure that copyright is not violated. You will discuss the issues of copyright in the lecture. Respecting copyright is very important: to ignore copyright is not plagiarism, it's stealing. We'll have a longer discussion about copyright at a later date, but for today, we'll say that you can make a copy of a picture that is not (1) for sale, (2) a logo, or (3) other valuable property. In this document we describe how to download an image on a Mac only, things might work differently on a PC, but will be similar.

There are two ways of downloading an image:

Place the mouse over the image and drag it onto the Desktop. This is easy, but it creates a file with the same name as the one used on the web page, which may be inconvenient, especially if the file was called something like picture9.gif (it's not a very informative name).
A better way:
- In Safari, control-click on the image, then choose Save Image to the Desktop, from the pop up menu. You'll then have to move the image from the Desktop to wherever you want it.
- In Firefox, control-click and choose Save Image As...
- In IE, place the mouse over the image, press it, and hold it down. A menu will pop up. Select Download Image to disk from the menu. Another pop-up window will appear. In this window choose the location of the image (Desktop or a folder) and the file name.
  Click on Save or press Return. Done!!