JamieMagee :: Pasting web photos into Notes without losing quality

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So you want to email someone a photo from a web page. From your browser, you can copy the photo to your clipboard, but when you paste it into Lotus Notes it loses color depth and you get poor image grading such as the picture on the right...


Original picture looks good with all colors	Pasting into Notes results in poor color grading in the sky and water

One solution you probably know is that if you right click on the original web image and save to a file, then choose File \ Import in Notes, you can import the image with full fidelity. However, this litters temporary files on your drive. Simply pasting into PhotoShop, then copying from there will sometimes work, but not always. And both these approaches are more steps than necessary.

A quick way to get good pasted image quality...
1) right click on the web image and choose "Copy Image Location"
2) in Notes, do File \ Import and choose Files of type = JPEG Image. Keyboard shortcut: ALT f i CTRL+v TAB j ENTER
3) For the image file path, paste in the entire URL for the image including the http://.

Then you get a full color image, in few steps, with no files on your drive.

Comments

1 - Great tip, Jamie. I had no idea you could use a URI for importing graphics.

Learn something new every day. Emoticon

Posted by Rob Novak At 02:44:25 PM On 02/27/2008 | - Website - |

2 - Hey, that's Little Bay!

Excited about your Spring Break vacation by any chance??? Emoticon

Posted by francie At 02:48:53 PM On 02/27/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Now that's a sweet little tip. Thanks.

Posted by Kerr At 04:50:33 AM On 02/28/2008 | - Website - |

4 - @Rob - In fact, you can use URLs for file locations when importing into Image Resources, Files, or just about any place in Notes/Designer. Haven't tried many other apps yet, but most in Windows appear to consider an URL a valid filepath. I'm using XP.

@Francie - Yes, we can't wait! Been practicing my rope climbing... with my kids on my back.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 11:00:20 AM On 02/28/2008 | - Website - |

5 - Hey, Jamie... can you email me about NoteMan? Just following up from the Sphere...

Posted by Turtle At 01:17:33 PM On 02/29/2008 | - Website - |

6 - why does that happen in the first place? is notes doing something to the image?

Posted by Joseph LeMay At 01:40:11 PM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

7 - Good question, Joe. I do not know. But I do think it's Notes (not Windows clipboard), because I can paste into Photoshop with all the color fidelity preserved.

Posted by Jamie Magee At 01:51:02 PM On 03/13/2008 | - Website - |

8 - Notes pasted clipboard images as low quality bitmaps.

Pasting a URL into a file dialog should work anywhere in XP when doing an "open". Obviously you can't usually save back to that path so opening a word document that way may have unpredicatable results.

(Loving the loan adverts in the co-comment dialogs)

Posted by Ben Rose At 07:35:14 AM On 05/20/2008 | - Website - |