How To Save A Photo On Mac

Just in case you didn't know, Mac comes with an in-built application, Photo Booth. The app lets you take a photo and record video using your iSight camera or an external video recorder. The app features numerous photo effects and a social sharing button, resembling the features of a trending social networking site. If you haven't ever used your Mac's camera to capture moments, then you can try it using this app. Know more about it in our detailed post on how to take a picture or record a video on Mac.

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How to Take a Picture on Your Mac Using Photo Booth App

The app lets you take a selfie or shoot a series of four photos at once. If you're using an external camera, ensure that it's connected and turned on. Then, go ahead with the below-mentioned steps.

Right click to save an image on a Mac For most images, this is the best way to save them on a Mac, as it offers you the most control. Remember that using two fingers to tap on the track pad is the.

• I need to save a picture that I found online. On my dell, I would right click and choose save picture as, but Mac doesn't have a right click so I have no idea what I'm doing.
• Select the photo which you want to save on your Mac computer. Click the photo, you will see it in full size. Right-click on the photo and select 'View Page Source'. Press Command + F to find the image source. Copy the URL and paste your URL on to the address bar of your web browser.

1. Open the Photo Booth app on your Mac.
2. If you see the View Photo Preview or the View Video Preview button, click on it to bring the Take Photo or the Record Video button on the screen.
3. Use the button in the bottom left to capture a group of four photos or a single photo.
4. Click on the Take Photo button.

After a photo is taken, you can view it in the preview section above the Effects button. If you want, you can export or delete it accordingly by right-clicking on the trackpad. You can also use special effects to personalize your image while capturing it.

How to Record a Video on your Mac using Photo Booth App

1. Open the Photo Booth app
2. Click on the View Photo Preview or View Video Preview button to get the Take Photo or Record Video button.
3. Select the Video option at the bottom left.
4. Click on the Record Video button.
5. Hit the Stop button when you're done recording.

View your captured video in the preview section. You can export it to a location on your Mac or delete it if it's not up to the marks.

How to Save and Share Selfies and Video from Mac

One of the perks of using Photo Booth is that it instantly allows you to share photos on various platforms. Here's how you can share your captured moments with your friends and family using the app.

1. Choose the Selfie photo or video that you want to share.
2. Hit the Share button, then choose the right platform to share.

• • Mail: Share your captured moments via the Mail app.
  • Messages: Insert your selected photos and videos in a new text message.
  • AirDrop: Photo Booth will list devices that are using AirDrop nearby. Click on a device to share your photos or videos.
  • Notes: Add photos or videos in a new note.
  • Add to Photos: You can save a photo or video to the Photos app library.
  • Click on More to explore other options.

How to Turn Off the Countdown or Flash for Photos on Mac

Right before a photo is taken, a three-second countdown appears. Your screen also flashes at the moment photo is taken. As these pre-capture settings may be intrusive, you can easily disable them using the steps mentioned below.

• Turn Off the Countdown: Press and hold the Option key while clicking the Take Photo button.
• Disable Flash: Press and hold the Shift key while clicking on the Photo button.
• Configure Flash: Choose Camera → Enable Screen Flash.
• To turn off both Flash and Countdown at once: Press and hold Option and Shift keys while clicking the Photo button.

How to Choose a Screen Size in Photo Booth App on Mac

The Photo Booth app lets you take photos and record videos in either full-screen mode or split-view accordingly. If you're working on another app while recording a video, you can use both apps at once. Here is all you need to do!

• Use Photo Booth in Full Screen: Take the pointer to the green button at the top left corner of the Photo Booth window and click the Full-Screen button. To leave the full screen, click the same button again.
• Use Photo Booth in Split View: Move the pointer to the green button in the top-left corner, then select Tile Window to Left of Screen or Tile Window to Right of Screen from the menu. To leave Split View, click on its window.

Signing off

Photo Booth is a simple yet amazing photography app in macOS. Depending on the quality of your Mac's camera lens, you can rate this feature and conclude whether it's worthwhile or not. If it is good, then you might love using it, taking some time out of your schedule to share pictures with your friends. What do you think about it? Give it a try and share your experience in the comment section below.

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There are tens of millions of photos housed on Instagram, yet there's no built-in way to download photos directly to your computer or phone. You can bookmark photos or 'like' them. . . but that's nowhere near as useful as downloading the picture file itself. So let's go over the various ways to do that!

Why Doesn't Instagram Let You Download Photos in the App?

Instagram makes this difficult primarily to protect the individual Instagram user's copyright on their pictures. That said, there are still many ways around it. For better or for worse, once a picture goes up on Instagram, it's open season for other people who want to take a few extra steps to download it.

There are a number of reasons you might want to download Instagram photos.

Maybe they're genuinely your photos and you simply want to have the actual image file to reuse or store elsewhere.

Maybe it's someone else's photo that you just really like and would like to save outside of Instagram.

Maybe you want to repost it on your own social accounts, although that comes with some legal risk.

Regardless, the steps to let you do any of these can be found below! We hope you find this guide helpful.

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How to download a single Instagram photo on Instagram.com:

1. 1. Create an account within the Instagram app if you haven't already.
   2. Log in on Instagram.com.
   3. Find the photo you'd like to save.
      1. You can only see photos from your current friends on Instagram.com. There is no option to explore other photos.
      2. To get around this, you can navigate directly to another user's URL using the template 'https://instagram.com/_________', inserting their username in the blank space.
   4. Click the gray ellipses button. It will be below the bottom right corner of the photo or to the right of the 'Comment' area (an ellipsis is three periods in a row, like so: . . .)
   5. The 'View Photo Page' option will be in the menu that appears. Click 'View Photo Page'.
   6. What you do on the Photo Page depends on your browser.
      • Firefox: Right click on the photo and choose 'View Background Image' to open another page that shows only the photo. You can then right click it again and click 'Save Image as…'
      • Chrome: Right click on the photo and choose 'Inspect Element.' A scary-looking sidebar will pop up on the right side, but don't panic! It's actually simple. There will be a small section in blue. The URL for your image will be in parenthesis beginning with 'https://' and then ending with '.jpg.' Paste this URL into your browser's address bar and hit enter. You'll arrive at just the picture; you can then right click it again and click 'Save Image as…'
   7. Follow your usual process for saving downloaded files and photographs on your computer. You're done!

If all else fails, you can take a screenshot of the photo, although this might require you to do some photo cropping later.

On Windows, you can use the 'Prt Sc' (print screen) button on your keyboard to save a screenshot of everything on your screen. It will be in your clipboard, ready to be pasted into a photo editing application and saved.

On Mac, you can press 'Shift + Command + 4' to use your mouse cursor to drag a box over the area you'd like to screenshot. It will be in your clipboard, ready to be pasted into a photo editing application and saved.

How to save all of your own Instagram photos as a backup:

There are several services dedicated to helping you easily download every photo on an Instagram profile at once. The most popular and easiest to use service is Instaport.

Within a couple minutes, you can sort through your photo archive and download every single one in a ZIP file. Pretty easy, right?

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How to download all of someone else's Instagram photos:

The best method for downloading all of someone else's Instagram photos is the same as for your own: you'll want to use Instaport. Simply plug in their username or URL and you're good to go.

This also illustrates just how easy it is for someone else to grab your Instagram content if they really wanted to. And as our article 'How to Contact Instagram' describes, you're pretty unlikely to reach any kind of resolution on a complaint filed with Instagram support.

How to Download Instagram Photos on iOS iPhone

Instagram makes this process as difficult as possible for iOS users. There are different apps that have claimed to make this easier at various points in time, but most of them have been removed from the app store.

New ones tend to crop up now and then, but never stay up for long.

The workaround that is guaranteed to do the trick on any iPhone, without downloading any additional apps, is this process:

1. Go to the Instagram photo that you want to save.
2. Screenshot it by pressing your Home button and your Sleep/Wake button at the same time.
3. Go to your 'Photos' app and pull up the screenshot image you just took.
4. The bottom of your screen should have four buttons. Tap the one that looks kind of like an abacus (three circles on three lines, like sliders).
5. On the bottom left of the new menu that appears, there should be a little square with arrows circling it. This is the 'Crop and Rotate' button. Tap it.
6. Adjust the frame until all the Instagram page stuff surrounding the actual image is cropped out.
7. Tap 'Done' in the bottom right.

We definitely agree that it's annoying that this is the only method that is guaranteed to work, but it's what iOS users of Instagram must do if they want to download a picture.

How to Download Instagram Photos on Android Phone

The easiest way to download Instagram photos directly on your Android device is using the app QuickSave for Instagram.

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The process for using it is simple:

1. Make sure QuickSave is running on your phone first.
2. Open Instagram and choose 'Copy / Share URL' on the photo or video that you want to save. You can save multiple photos or videos at once.
3. Return to QuickSave. Download the photo or video, then swipe to dismiss, repost, or share to an Instagram account of your own.

You're done!

Remember: using any of these methods doesn't protect you from getting in trouble for using other people's intellectual property without their permission (i.e. using their photos and videos).

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