Kids store photos on Face Book?!

Melodina

This may sound like I'm on the wrong forum but I've got 3 college kids who unfortunately keep all their photos on Face Book. I want some of those pixs that I see on their walls. Is there a way for me to get those Face Book photos into my Smug Mug galleries?:scratch

Melodina

I do that but it copies anything and EVERYTHING on the website ............. not just the pix?

hgernhardtjr

Melodina wrote: »

I do that but it copies anything and EVERYTHING on the website ............. not just the pix?

I click the Facebook picture, it displays more-or-less in a large fashion, click the "download" button in the bottom left of the box below the photo, then right click the resulting photo (it's now open in its own window) and save it from there.

One other method, if you have a large screen and Vista or Windows7, is to use the ctrl-plus key combination to enlarge the window until the photo fills your screen, press PrintScreen button on the keyboard, and then paste into a photo program (or even Word). You can get it that way, but it is only at screen resolution (Facebook is low res, anyway).

If you have Win7, use its included "snip" app (which I keep on my start bar) ... it allows you to copy any portion of your screen and save as a .jpg right off the bat (unlike 'PrtScr' or 'PrintScreen').

Oh, if you use ctrl+ (ctrl plus) to enlarge the view, use ctrl- (ctrl minus) to reduce it back to size (Vista and 7).

Sam

Melodina wrote: »

This may sound like I'm on the wrong forum but I've got 3 college kids who unfortunately keep all their photos on Face Book. I want some of those pixs that I see on their walls. Is there a way for me to get those Face Book photos into my Smug Mug galleries?

First thing that popped into my head is get them from your kids. If they procrastinate just explain that your having trouble finding your checkbook the next time they call in a panic, and that as soon as your done trying to find those pictures you will get to looking for that darn checkbook.

Sam

Melodina

Sam wrote: »

First thing that popped into my head is get them from your kids. If they procrastinate just explain that your having trouble finding your checkbook the next time they call in a panic, and that as soon as your done trying to find those pictures you will get to looking for that darn checkbook.

Sam

roflroflYou got me laughing on that one Sam!

Melodina

hgernhardtjr wrote: »

I click the Facebook picture, it displays more-or-less in a large fashion, click the "download" button in the bottom left of the box below the photo, then right click the resulting photo (it's now open in its own window) and save it from there.

One other method, if you have a large screen and Vista or Windows7, is to use the ctrl-plus key combination to enlarge the window until the photo fills your screen, press PrintScreen button on the keyboard, and then paste into a photo program (or even Word). You can get it that way, but it is only at screen resolution (Facebook is low res, anyway).

If you have Win7, use its included "snip" app (which I keep on my start bar) ... it allows you to copy any portion of your screen and save as a .jpg right off the bat (unlike 'PrtScr' or 'PrintScreen').

Oh, if you use ctrl+ (ctrl plus) to enlarge the view, use ctrl- (ctrl minus) to reduce it back to size (Vista and 7).

Oh, how can I thank you. It worked perfect!! Just perfect! I wanted to make a photo book of their pixs at college. All downloaded now. Thanks again.

hgernhardtjr

You're welcome ... I teach the stuff in college classes, and even though my own kids call me an old fuddy-duddy, I actually ... finally ... reluctantly did the Facebook thing to keep up with them in various parts of the country, as well as various foreign "mentor-family kids" we've worked with over the years.

I prefer the ease, speed, and filesizes allowed by Dropbox or Pogoplug, but the kids do their own thing on the fly with fingers blurring on miniscule keyboards while they perform a variety of simultaneous activities, and which this "old-fashioned" sexagenarian frowns on ... like driving while texting on the blasted cellphone. And they don't give a hoot about online privacy. So, if you want to see the pictures of the grandkids, you have to look at them using their modern way, like it or not!