Q: I'm trying to get this picture into a word document: http://flickr.com/photos/7155396@N05/1391777126/ It's a picture of a few amish boys standing in front of a corn field. If I try to save it, all I get is a white dot the size of a pixel. If I try to drag it into the word document, all I get is a dot. If I try to copy/paste it into the word document, all I get is a dot. If I try to open the picture in a new tab, all I get is a blank screen. It's a gif image if it matter. I'm just trying to put it into a word document, and I know that any of the above should have worked because I've been doing it before. Any ideas? I always give points to the best answer!
A: the things you described are flickr photos protection to prevent people from stealing pictures. you may want to save the picture just because you think it's cool or something, but there are people who steals pictures, puts them on some photo calendars or greetings cards and earn money this way while the real photographer gets nothing and doesn't even know his/hers picture was taken. many photographers on flickr don't allow to save their pictures, you can only view them but you can't download. if the photographer allows downloading pictures, each of them has "All sizes" button on the top of photo, like this one: http://flickr.com/photos/cositasdeagustina/1386312037/ you need to click the button to see the download options. unfortunatelly the picture you want to download doesn't have this button, this means that photographer doesn't want other people to save the photo. you can click "Print screen" on your keyboard to steal the photo, but you will only get a small picture. i recommend contacting the photographer and asking for the picture. once i saw really nice macro picture and contacted the photographer saying i want to have that photo as wallpaper on my pc and he agreed to share the picture.