Paste Image to Download

Paste a copied image or screenshot and save it as a file: PNG, JPG or WebP, straight from the clipboard.

or press Ctrl+V, drop an image here, or choose a file

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Turn a Copied Image Into a Saved File

A copied image lives in the clipboard, where it can be pasted into a chat or a document but not saved anywhere. This page closes that gap: press Ctrl+V, or tap the paste button, and whatever image is on the clipboard appears here as a real file you can download. It is a clipboard image downloader in the plainest sense - what you copied comes out as a file. It works with a screenshot from the Print Screen key or the Snipping Tool, an image copied out of a web page with right click and Copy image, a picture copied from a chat or a document, and anything else your system puts on the clipboard as a picture.

Downloading it in the format it arrived in gives you the original bytes back, untouched. A clipboard image is PNG, and PNG is what the download defaults to, so nothing is decoded and re-encoded on the way out and the saved file is identical to what was copied. Only an actual format change, PNG in and JPG out, runs through an encoder.

How to Download a Copied Image

Copy an image anywhere - Print Screen, Snipping Tool, right click and Copy image in a browser, or copy from a chat. Come back to this page and press Ctrl+V, or Cmd+V on a Mac, or tap the big paste button, which asks the browser for the clipboard directly and is the way to do this on a phone. The image appears; pick a format and download - on the result screen you can rename the file and download it again. Everything runs in your browser: nothing is uploaded, there is no signup, and no watermark is added.

Why a Copied Image Cannot Just Be Saved

The clipboard and the file system are separate things. When you copy an image, your system stores the raw picture in memory rather than a file, so there is nothing to drag into a folder and no Save option to reach for. Some apps let you paste, and some let you save, but very few do both. Pasting into a page that can write a file is the shortest route from one to the other, which is why screenshots are the most common thing people bring here.

Screenshots, and What Happens to Quality

A screenshot taken with Print Screen or the Snipping Tool goes to the clipboard as lossless PNG. Saving it as PNG here keeps every pixel exactly as captured, which matters for text, code, user interfaces and anything with hard edges, where JPG compression leaves a visible fuzz around the letters. Choose JPG only when the picture is a photograph and the file size matters more than the sharpness, and WebP when you want both and the file is heading for the web.

Details, Privacy, and What Else Is Here

The info button on the image opens a small card with its dimensions, file size and format, which a pasted image otherwise has no way of telling you. Every value there copies when you click it. The image never leaves your device: it is decoded, shown and saved entirely in the browser.

If the image you want is on a web page rather than the clipboard, the image extractor pulls every picture out of a URL, and extract images from PDF does the same for a document. To look at an image without saving it, there is the image viewer.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pasting Images

How do I download an image I copied?

Copy the image, open this page, and press Ctrl+V, or Cmd+V on a Mac, or tap the paste button. The image appears here as a file, and the download button saves it. There is nothing to install and no account.

How do I save a screenshot from the clipboard?

Take the screenshot with Print Screen or the Snipping Tool so it lands on the clipboard, then paste it here and download it. Keep the PNG format, which is what the screenshot already is, so the text and interface edges stay sharp and nothing is re-compressed.

Does pasting reduce the image quality?

No, as long as you download in the format the image arrived in, which is the default. In that case the original bytes are handed straight back, so the file you save is identical to what was copied. Quality only changes if you deliberately switch to a lossy format such as JPG.

The paste button did nothing. What now?

The browser has to grant access to the clipboard, and some browsers only allow that after a prompt. Press Ctrl+V instead, which always works because the image comes with the paste event itself, or drop an image file onto the page. If the clipboard holds text or a file path rather than a picture, there is no image to paste.

Can I paste an image on a phone?

Yes. Copy the image, open this page and tap the paste button, then allow the clipboard prompt if one appears. Phones have no Ctrl+V, which is why the paste button is the main control here rather than a keyboard shortcut.

Is my image uploaded to a server?

No. The pasted image is read, displayed and saved entirely in your browser on your device. Nothing is transmitted, and the page keeps working offline once it is open.