How to download images from any website: four methods, in order

Method 1: right-click, then check what you actually got

Right-click and "Save image as" works fine on a plain image, and it's the right first try. Just don't stop there. Open the saved file and check its dimensions before you rely on it. Most sites display a scaled copy, often 500 to 800 pixels wide, so the photo that looked sharp inside the page can be the small version.

Right-click also fails in two predictable ways. If the picture is set as a CSS background, there is no image under your cursor as far as the browser is concerned, and no Save option appears. And some pages lay a transparent element over their photos, so your click lands on that instead. Both cases are method 3 below.

Method 2: open the image in a new tab and read the URL

Right-click and choose "Open image in new tab," then look at the address. Big platforms write the requested size into the file name, and editing that segment asks the server for a different copy of the same photo:

• Amazon: a segment like _AC_SL1500_. Raise the number, or delete the segment entirely to get the largest version held.
• eBay: URLs end in a size code. s-l500 is the mid-size copy; swap it for s-l1600 for the biggest one commonly served.
• Etsy: display photos carry sizes like il_794xN. The full file is the same name with il_fullxfull.

The ceiling is whatever the uploader provided. If a seller uploaded a 1200px original, the "full size" is 1200px and no URL edit invents more. Still, on marketplace pages this one trick gets you from thumbnail to usable file most of the time.

Method 3: DevTools, for background images and stubborn pages

When right-click gives you nothing, the Network tab will. It lists every file the page loaded, images included, whatever the page layout pretends:

1. Press F12 (or right-click the page and choose Inspect) to open DevTools.
2. Go to the Network tab and click the Img filter.
3. Reload the page. Every image the page fetches appears in the list, with its size.
4. Sort by size, click the likely candidates to preview them, then right-click the right one and open or save it.

Scroll down the page before you give up on a missing image. Many sites lazy-load, fetching photos only when they near the screen, so a file that hasn't loaded yet won't be in the list. This method takes two minutes once you've done it twice, and it works on nearly any page your browser can display.

Method 4: a scanner tool that lists everything on the page

Generic image downloader extensions scan the page and present every image they find in one list, so you can pick and save in bulk. For an article page or a portfolio, that list is exactly what you want. On a product page it has a drawback: the list mixes gallery photos with logos, icons, payment badges and tracking pixels, and nothing tells you which photo belongs to which variant. You get everything, labelled as nothing.

Where HiRes fits, and where it doesn't

Honest scope note, since we make one of these tools. HiRes is built for product pages on eight marketplaces: Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, TikTok Shop, Temu, Etsy, Lazada and Walmart. On those pages, its panel groups what the page exposes into main gallery, variant images with their option labels, and detail images, so you skip the new-tab URL editing and the unlabelled pile. Individual downloads are free; a ZIP of a bigger selection is part of Pro at $19, one time.

On any other website, a news article, a blog, a supplier's own homepage, HiRes isn't the tool and the panel won't help you. Use the methods above. We'd rather tell you that here than have you install it and find out on the wrong page.