copying pics received by email

just received some funnies in an email but can't copy them any tips?

What are they, text or pictures? What email program or service are you using?

pics and I use thunder bird so they have been pasted into an email program in Canada and then sent to me! I've tried copying and pasting but all I get is blank frames!

Sorry, I should have known they were images from the thread title. Down the bottom of the Thunderbird window, is there a bar that says there are a number of attachments? If so, you should be able to save the pictures from there.

Just the usual cautions about downloading and opening e-mail attachments. Just images (.jpg - .gif - .png) ought to be safe enough though.

no they were sent from an Ipad?

I'm not sure what difference that might make but since saving the images to your computer is proving a problem, a way of doing it could be by doing screen captures. How would you be with that?

It's a method that, once familiar with it, saves looking for any technical reasons why the image(s) won't save or copy/paste.

yes I remember doing it years ago and it seem quite a neat technique - how does it go?

The procedure would be:

* Open the e-mail and get one of the images you want to save centred on the screen.

* Press the 'Print Screen' key on the keyboard. This copies what you can see on the screen to the Clipboard.

* Open any image/photo editor and use its 'Paste' option to paste the screen capture into it.

* Use the 'Crop Tool' to crop away the unwanted parts of the capture so that only the image remains.

* Save the image.

* Repeat the procedure for the other images you want to save.

I know there are number of screen capture programs that make the job easier but it can be done as described above.

ta mart I remember doing it a few years back to break some copyright law - seemed easy then I'll give it  try and report back