Printing photos

[pitstopbunny]

Can any one tell me how to print the publicity photos on this site, even if I save them - it will not let me print them - thanks

http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0110689/

[wideboy]

Don't know how they are protecting the pictures (usually they just disable the right-click of the mouse). Get the biggest picture possible then press the Prnt Scrn key. This copies the screen to the clipboard. Go into an application package like Paint or Paintshop Pro etc and Paste the image. Now select the bit you want and save it/print it. Alternatively you can paste into Word and crop the image before printing.

[simsfreq]

I'm assuming you're using a Windows computer? Well there is a key on your keyboard called the Print Screen Key. This is usually to be found next to your F12 key at the top of the keyboard. Open the page with the picture you want to print, and press this key. Then open a graphics program (Paint will do if you haven't got anything else) and go into the Edit menu and select "Paste." The screen you just saw will appear in the window. Then use the rectangular select tool (Looks like a rectangle made from dotted lines) and draw a rectangle around the part you want to print. Go into the Edit menu again and click "Copy," then go into File and select "New." Then Edit, Paste again and you have your picture. You can print this from the File menu.

[LeMarchand]

IMDb disables the right-click save and print options, presumably for copyright reasons. You can still "print screen" and use photo-editing software to cut off any extraneous areas and/or stitch two screens together. Another option is to right-click and "view source", then search through the HTML until you find the http address for the picture you want, then right-click and save or print.

[wideboy]

LeMarchand, pitstopbunny was asking because IMDb doesn't disable the right-click. It lets you save but the saved picture is grey with a small white square in the middle!

[LeMarchand]

Without wishing to get into a slanging match about semantics, IMDb have coded their pages so that right-click and save or print doesn't work. Therefore it has been disabled :-p .

[pitstopbunny]

Thank you for all your help, I have managed to print off the picture I want, although it is not as large as the original screen that I copied it from - did I do something wrong? I am using Windows 98 (2nd edition) & have both word & print options to copy to.

[wideboy]

Did you paste the screen into Word, crop it and then resize it before printing?

[pitstopbunny]

Help - I am a complete PC novice - how do I crop & paste when on windows? Please let me know using PC moron mode!!!

[wideboy]

Not in windows, I thought you said you had Microsoft Word - if so, I'll tell you how. If not, you will need to use a paint program.