Extracting embedded graphics

[sklain]

A relative recently sent me an e-mail with scanned family photos from long
ago -- which, unfortunately, were embedded within the e-mail rather than
attached to the message. Can anyone tell me how to extract such embedded
photos?

Thanks!

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Right click | Save As?

 

[sklain]

Your suggestion didn't work, for one because you didn't specify what to right
click on. And when I opened the message, there wasn't anything to right click
on anyway!

Nevertheless, your idea of right clicking was food for thought, and after
playing around a bit I discovered that when I hit the "Reply" button, I was
then able to right click on the photo and copy it ("save as" wasn't one of
the available options). I then inserted the photo in an empty new file in
Vista Paint and subsequently saved it as a TIF file, which I'll now be
working on in Adobe Photoshop Elements to improve its quality.

So, although your suggestion didn't work directly, it did point me in the
right direction, so thanks!

 

[Bruce Hagen]

If you put the cursor on an embedded picture and right click on it, one of
the options should be Save Picture As and save it to a folder of your
choice.

I didn't elaborate since you said the pictures were embedded and not
attached, and I wrongly assumed you would right click on the picture.

If the pictures are embedded, I'm not sure what you mean by:

<QP>
there wasn't anything to right click on anyway!
</QP>

If the pictures are embedded, or attached, you should be able to see them
and have the same Save Picture As option.

 

[sklain]

You didn't wrongly assume I would right click on the photo. I tried it.
Really. Once again: (1) If I simply open the message with its imbedded photo,
I can click wherever I want, all over the photo, but it refuses to get
"selected", nothing happens, and there's nothing to click on to bring up a
right-click context menu. Really. (2) Only when I click on the "Reply" or
"Forward" button and can see the copied original message, including the
photo, can I select the photo by clicking on it. Really. But (3) Right
clicking only brings up the following context-menu options: Cut, Copy,
Insert, Select All, Paragraph, and Properties. A couple of other options, in
addition to Paragraph, which deal with formatting options, are greyed out. No
"Save As" option is visible, either active or greyed out, as far as the eye
can see. Really.

But even if you're right, which I guess assumes that I've been hallucinating
here, this is a non-issue for me now. What matters is that with your
suggestion pointing the way to a solution, which I ultimately discovered by
experimenting, I'm now able to preserve imbedded photos. It may be an awkward
way but it's one that works. So thanks again. Really.

 

[sklain]

Whoops! My face is red. I looked more closely to what happens when I simply
click on the original message to open, and although left-clicking on the
photo doesn't show any physical sign of selecting (framing) it, right
clicking anywhere on the photo does indeed call up a brief context menu,
including Save As. You were absolutely right and I apologize for any
confusion. I have a habit -- which I now realize isn't a good habit of -- of
first Selecting an item by left-clicking on it before left-clicking to see
the context menu. Strangly, this system works when I left click on the
message after I've first selected "Reply", etc. Anyway, problem solved and
thanks for your completely accurate help.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

You're welcome.