# Pictures on CD ROMS-can I use? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 12, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255 "2000-12-12T23:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/1 "2000-12-12T23:41:07Z")
I have this movie CD ROM that has a picture of actor Omar Sharif that I would love to be able to use. (NOT for violating copyrights)…is there anyway to save a picture from a CD ROM? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/2 "2000-12-13T02:17:02Z")
You have to provide more info than that - are you running on PC, Mac, Unix or something else? What kind of CD-ROM? A CD is just a storage medium, it can contain any type of image format. If you’re running Windows and the image file isn’t a standard format you can access directly (like JPEG or GIF), it may be possible to press the PrintScreen key (or sometimes Shift-PrintScreen) to copy the entire screen into the clipboard. Nothing visible will happen when you press the key, but if you then go to an image editing program or Word and select Paste, the image will be pasted from the clipboard. There are also many image editing programs that provide this screen capture function, such as PaintShop Pro. (Is that still shareware?) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/3 "2000-12-13T02:50:00Z")
PC! And I tried it using paintshop…it worked! Thank you sooo much! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/4 "2000-12-13T04:05:42Z")
You now have Omar Sharif in your clipboard. What exactly are you going to do with him? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/5 "2000-12-13T04:23:10Z")
RE: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colin Wilkinson \* > \*\*You now have Omar Sharif in your clipboard. What exactly are you going to do with him? \*\* You can shoot the Sharif, but just be sure you don’t shoot the deputy ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/6 "2000-12-13T12:07:05Z")
**Rhythmdvl** , eeeeeeeeewwwww! _Astro holds his nose and runs away!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-on-cd-roms-can-i-use/45255/7 "2000-12-13T15:12:42Z")
_groan_ Use it to make a collage of Doctor Zhivago pictures…