# How to get a picture from email into jpg ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 16, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199 "2010-01-16T15:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/1 "2010-01-16T15:38:41Z")
OK, I have AOL (don’t laugh.) Someone took a picture with their iPhone, and emailed it to me. I would like to get it into PhotoShop to fiddle with. How the heck do I do that? I try highlighting the picture, then COPY and then PASTE, that doesn’t work. There must be some way to save as a jpg? Help, please? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/2 "2010-01-16T15:42:44Z")
You need to download the picture to your computer first. Right-click, choose “Save image as…”. Make sure you know where it’s being saved. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/3 "2010-01-16T15:42:58Z")
Assuming it won’t let you download it for some reason, use Irfanview and do a screen capture. Or in Windows use Print Screen and paste to Paint. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/4 "2010-01-16T15:43:07Z")
Can you right click it and select ‘save as’ (or ‘save image as’ in Firefox), stick it on the desktop then open with Photoshop? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/5 "2010-01-16T17:18:39Z")
When you right click is here ‘copy’ option? If so, click that. Then in Photoshop create a new file. Photoshop is clever in that it sets the dimensions to whatever’s in the clipboard. then right click and click ‘paste’. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/6 "2010-01-16T19:18:04Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > OK, I have AOL (don’t laugh.) [According to this article](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec0110addressjan10,0,7985356.story), having an AOL email account makes you “hopelessly square.” Perhaps you need to have a makeover from _What Not To Wear_? I hear GMail is the going thing for 2010. Shall we set you up with [Stacy and Clinton](http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/whatnottowear/whatnottowear.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/7 "2010-01-16T22:12:57Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > [According to this article](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-perspec0110addressjan10,0,7985356.story), having an AOL email account makes you “hopelessly square.” The article doesn’t say that at all. Some headline writer stuck that phrase on an article that asks a similar question and then answers “no.” ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/8 "2010-01-16T23:24:47Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > When you right click is here ‘copy’ option? If so, click that. > > Then in Photoshop create a new file. Photoshop is clever in that it sets the dimensions to whatever’s in the clipboard. then right click and click ‘paste’. Yeah. Someone sent me a photo from a phone maybe three weeks ago, and right-clicking to save didn’t work for me. It saved itself as a Firefox document which was all garbled code when I opened it. I didn’t have the option to save in any other format. I then right-clicked copy, and pasted into a blank document using photo program and it worked. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/9 "2010-01-17T00:30:38Z")
You might have more luck going through [AOL’s web interface](http://webmail.aol.com/) than their software. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-a-picture-from-email-into-jpg/525199/10 "2010-01-17T05:17:04Z")
Go to pictures downloaded from aol folder.