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Is there a simple method to copy an image from Google Docs to the local clipboard? And select the image you want to copy/download. Do not have the image selected in the Google Doc, otherwise you will select an overlay/container instead of the image. I wanted to copy an image from Google Docs into Photoshop. The two things that made this.

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Editing master slides and layouts

You may have noticed that when you select a different theme in Google Slides, it rearranges the text on your slides and adds shapes to the background. This is because each theme has built-in slide layouts and background graphics. You can edit these layouts with a feature called the master template editor. Once you learn how to use the editor, you'll be able to customize your entire slide show with just a few clicks.

Using the master template editor

The master template editor in Google Slides allows you to quickly modify the slides and slide layouts in your presentation. From there, you can edit the master slide, which will affect every slide in the presentation. You can also modify individual slide layouts, which will change any slides using those layouts. Here are some common uses for the master template editor.

• Modify backgrounds:The master template editor makes it easy to customize the background for all of your slides at the same time. For example, you could add a watermark or logo to each slide in your presentation, or you could modify the background graphics of an existing theme.
  
• Rearrange placeholders: If you find that you often rearrange the placeholders on each slide, you can save time by rearranging them in the master template editor instead. When you adjust one of the layouts in the master template editor, all of the slides with that layout will change.
• Customize text formatting:Instead of changing the text color on each slide individually, you could use the master template editor to change the text color on all slides at once.
• Create unique slide layouts:If you want to create a presentation that looks different from default Google Slides themes, you could use the master template editor to create your own layouts. Custom layouts can include your own background graphics and placeholders.

Customizing the master slide

If you want to change something on all slides of your presentation, you can edit the master slide. In our example, we'll change the title font color.

How To Download An Image From Google Slides

1. Optional: Click Theme and select a theme that is similar to the design you want. In our example, we'll select the Coral theme.
2. Open the Slide menu, then select Edit master.
3. The presentation will switch to the master template editor. Be sure to select the master slide at the top; otherwise, one of the layouts will be selected by default.
4. Make the desired changes to the master slide. In our example, we'll change the font color to teal.
5. When you're finished, close the master template editor by clicking the X at the top-right of the pane.
6. The change will appear on all slides of the presentation.

Customizing slide layouts

You can use the master template editor to modify any slide layout in your presentation. It's easy to make small tweaks like adjusting background graphics and more significant changes like rearranging or deleting placeholders. Unlike the master slide, changes to a slide layout will only be applied to slides using that layout in your presentation.

How To Download An Image From Google Slides To Mac

1. Open the master template editor. When it opens, the layout of the currently selected slide will be displayed by default.
2. Locate and select the desired layout in the left navigation pane. When you select a layout, you can see how many slides are currently using that layout in the presentation.
3. Add, move, modify, or delete any objects as desired. In our example, we'll resize the boxes and change their fill color to teal.
4. When you're finished, close the master template editor by clicking the X at the top-right of the pane.
5. The change will appear on all slides using that layout.

Unlike PowerPoint, pictures aren’t contained in placeholders, so they don’t move when you change the theme.

Should you edit all of the layouts?

The theme may contain layouts that aren’t used by your presentation. It’s up to you whether you edit all of them or just some of them. You may want to just focus on the layouts that are currently used by your presentation. On the other hand, if you plan to add more slides or use your theme in other presentations, you may want to edit all layouts to make sure the design is consistent.

Using your theme in other presentations

Once you've customized the master slide and layouts of your current presentation, you can import those same designs into a new presentation as a theme.

1. Open the presentation into which you want to import your customized theme. Open the Themes pane, then click the Import theme command at the bottom.
2. Select the customized presentation. Its theme will be imported into the current presentation.

Challenge!

1. Open our example file. Make sure you're signed in to Google, then click File > Make a copy.
2. Open the master template editor and make sure to select the master slide at the top.
3. Change the background to teal from the theme colors.
4. Change the master title font to Times New Roman and the font color to white.
5. Change the font color of the rest of the text to black.
6. Select the first layout slide (Title slide) in the master editor.
7. Change the alignment of the master title and the master subtitle to right align. Drag the title and subtitle so they are near the bottom-right of the slide.
8. Add a short horizontal line below the subtitle. Change the line color to yellow and the line weight to 4 pt.
9. Close the master slide. When you're finished, the first slide in your presentation should look something like this:

Google Docs uses a 'web clipboard' approach for cut and paste that works very well so long as the paste target is another Google doc. However, I don't know how to easily copy an image from the Google web clipboard to my local clipboard so that it can be pasted into a local document.

At this point, I have discovered two kludgey ways to do this:

1. File->Download as a Microsoft Office formatted file, open the file, copy image to clipboard
2. Capture screen area to clipboard with command+control+shift+4

Both have obvious workflow or quality cons. Is there a better way?

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I continue to have have the same problem, my work-around:

using Chrome:

among many icons this list contains the image embedded in the google doc, go through the list with arrow down, the image will appear on the right, this image can be copied with right-click-copy

If you have many files, use File -> Download as -> Web Page (.html zipped)

Then you can unzip on the desktop, and use the files.

Otherwise, press CTRL + A (selects the entire document/page)

Open Microsoft Word (if on Windows/Mac)
Press CTRL + V (or right-click - insert) to paste the clipboard to Word

Right-click the image in Word and choose 'Save as Picture'
(requires Office 2013, if you use Powerpoint it works in 2010 as well)

Or as mentioned by warrax, you can use the Chrome Developer Tools (F12, or CTRL + J)

Use shift + right clickThen you can download the pictures.

Note: You have to double click on the image to select it first.

Updated:

1. Select the Sources tab
2. Expand the contents for (no domain)
3. Locate the entries in the list which begin with filesystem:https://docs.google.com.... Clicking on one will display a preview of its contents. This is the form of the url that's used to reference the images in your document.
4. When you find the one you want, right-click it and Open in new tab. In the resulting tab, you can interact with the image in the same way you'd interact with any other image in your browser.

Previous answer:

Triple-click the image (or Select All) to select it and then you can right-click it and 'Copy Image'. Then you can paste it wherever you'd like.

EDITThe key is getting the browser's native right-click context menu instead of the Google Docs context menu.

I've been searching for an easy way to do this too. Triple-click doesn't work.

The best method I've come up with is to paste any image from the Google web clipboard into a GMail message and send it to yourself. After that you can drag and drop the image from within the mail message to where ever you please.

As of Chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 m, none of the answers stated work. (I don't know if the plugin works, but I don't want to install more plugins to find out).

What I was able to do was to use the development tools (most if not all modern browsers have this now).

1. Use the select element on page, and select the image you want to copy/download. Do not have the image selected in the Google Doc, otherwise you will select an overlay/container instead of the image.
2. You should see an <image> tag with an attribute with a url. As of this writing, that attribute is named xlink:href, but may change in the future.
3. Copy link and open that link in another tab/window of the same browser. This might be obvious, but... shrug.
4. Right click on the displayed image and select Copy/Save As or whatever.

This should work for all browsers that have development tools.

If you are using Chrome you can install a Google Docs add on and then cut and paste from docs to a desktop application like word - when copying/cutting from the apps document you must use Ctrl C or X. The first time you try and do this in Chrome it should ask if you want to install the add-on.

The triple-click trick is not available any more. To select and copy to Photoshop does not work.

However, to select the image and paste it into a word processor works and from there you can copy and paste the image into Photoshop.

Note that if the image is reduced in size in your Google doc it will keep its original size as you copy paste it into the word processor, but not keep it as you copy-paste it from the word processor to Photoshop. So, you should drag it to a bigger size in the word processor before copy-pasting into Photoshop.

I had this exact same problem - I wanted to copy an image from Google Docs into Photoshop. The two things that made this possible are:

Don't use Chrome. I opened the document in Firefox, thereby disabling some of Chrome's clever/annoying functions.

Log out of Gmail/Google. That disables all the editing functions in Google Docs/Drive, so you're back to the browser's copy/paste commands.

You can then just right-click and copy the image as you would on any other HTML web page. This process should theoretically work on any OS. I did that on a Mac.

1. Select image in google docs
2. Press command-C (copy to local clipboard)
3. Open a local application (i.e. Word)
4. Press command-V (paste from local clipboard)

Very simple. This is what I was hoping for 2 years ago when I asked the question, and thanks to google the simple solution is now available in google docs. No idea when this improvement was made.

One trick is to Print ->Open as PDF for Preview, then double-click on the images in the preview PDF to select and copy.

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