If yous desire to download a picture on your Chromebook and salve it for later, or keep an image someone has sent, it's quite simple. Hither's a quick guide that explains everything you need to know.

How to salvage an image to a Chromebook

When y'all're on a website, you lot can capture images easily and download them to your Chromebook for condom keeping. To do so, place the cursor over the prototype and tap the trackpad with two fingers.

This will open up the contextual menu from which you'll want to select Save paradigm as…

How to save an image on a Chromebook: Contextual menu

Yous'll then be able to select the folder where the image will be stored. It should default to Downloads, and you'll encounter this highlighted in the left-mitt column. Exist enlightened that the Downloads folder is all stored locally, and so if y'all want to be able to admission the image from other devices, then information technology'due south a good idea to move it directly to your Google Bulldoze instead.

(Notation that in this example, the paradigm is in WEBP format rather than the JPG or PNG file that you may accept expected. This is a format that is used a lot online these days because it makes the file size smaller, and web pages load quicker. Depending on the app you lot want to apply the image in, you might not even discover, but if you lot find you tin't view or edit the downloaded image and so take a look at our tutorial on how to convert WEBP images to JPG or PNG.)

How to save an image on a Chromebook: Saving the image

To salvage an prototype to Google Bulldoze, simply click on the Google Bulldoze folder in the left-hand column, then either select an existing sub-binder or click the New Folder button at the bottom of the window and create the destination for your prototype.

With this done, y'all can rename the image by typing in the filename line at the lesser of the window. Once y'all're happy with its title, click the Save button and the newly named file will be sent to the folder you specified.

How to copy an prototype to a Chromebook

Y'all don't have to download a paradigm, every bit there is always the option of copying information technology instead. This works well if you want to identify the picture directly into a Google Docs or Google Slides document or the online version of Microsoft Office. Information technology'southward the basically the aforementioned procedure as the one outlined above. Then, detect the image yous want, place the cursor over it then tap the touchpad with two fingers.

From the contextual menu, select Copy image.

How to save an image on a Chromebook: Copy image

Now, bring up the document into which the moving-picture show will become, select the appropriate area of the document, then tap the touchpad with ii fingers again.

From the carte du jour that appears, select Paste.

How to save an image on a Chromebook: Paste and image

Now the image should appear in the certificate.

How to save an image on a Chromebook: Image pasted into document

For more tips on getting the most out of a ChromeOS device, read how to copy and paste on Chromebook, how to speed up a Chromebook, and how to use split screen on a Chromebook. There's also our guide to the best Chromebooks currently available if y'all're thinking of ownership one soon.