How to isolate a jpg?

Question

I have a jpg that I copied and pasted into a word document. Now I want to isolate it as a jpg, take it out of the word document. I tried copying and pasting into paint and saving it as a jpg but it looks all yucky when I do this. How can I make it look normal?

I did save it as a stand-alone image, someone came along and erased my files along with that picture, then I discovered that I had pasted it into a word document, so now I'm trying to see if I can save that one. If I had a stand-alone image saved, I wouldn't be asking this question.

Answer 1

As soon as you pasted the picture to Word, you have already changed the quality of the picture since Word uses their own converter to convert it from a picture to a copied image.

You could try and save it as an html instead so that it takes the picture and creates a file instead and then you can just use the "save image as" option to save the picture. However, the quality was already lost when you used the paste method instead of inserting it as a jpg file.

Answer 2

Click on the image to select it. Now, right-click and choose "Save as picture" from the list menu that appears. In the save dialog, give the file a name, and choose "JPG" for the format.

I've just tested this technique and it works pretty well but you may need to adjust the size before saving it.

Answer 3

You should have saved it as a stand-alone image first, to copy, paste or edit later.

Answer 4

Paint uses bitmap
you can't just drop a .jpg into Paint

Answer 5

thanks for the 2 points and I have problems with that also.