Saving images

danab123

I am totally new to zotero and this forum so sorry if this post is a little scattered.

I plan on using zotero for mostly saving images as I run a fashion blog and I love the idea having all the information and picture saved and easily organized. But what I am having trouble doing is when I am browsing a blog, flikr, or other website I want to save one image and not all the other icons and stuff and be able to then organize pictures in my computer.

This is hard for me to explain but is anyone willing to walk me through some of the basics as far as images? I am not finding the information I want in the other support areas, thanks in advance!

adamsmith

First, let me say that I don't think that Zotero is ideal (or even OK) for organizing images. While I use Zotero for most of my research, I use picasa to organize pictures, mostly because it's much (_much_) easier to quickly scan through images. Picasa has tagging and annotation features that are useful enough for most standard purposes. I'm sure there are alternatives to Picasa that do similar things if you want to stay away from google.

That said, If you want to save an image from a blog, right click on the image, move your mouse to Zotero, a context menu will pop up, select "create Zotero item from image" - you will see that Zotero doesn't pick up much useful information with these pictures, but you'll get a basic Zotero item with the image attached.

danab123

I might check out Picasa for organizing my stuff but mostly I want a program that will save pictures with a direct link back to the source. Once I create a Zotero item from image, is there a way to save or move that image into a folder on my Desktop?

adamsmith

You can drag&drop attached files, yes. But the copy on the Desktop won't be linked to Zotero anymore. Why would you want that?

danab123

Because I have a folder of all saved images that will be put on my blog, so if there was a way to either create a folder in zotero then be able to upload the images from that folder straight to my blog.

danab123

I'm beginning to think that zotero might not be the best way to save and archive my images.....

adamsmith

danab - you can look at Zotfile to automate the process, though I'm not sure it will work with images
http://www.columbia.edu/~jpl2136/zotfile.html

ajlyon

Zotfile now can work with all file types-- you specify the file types in the preferences.