Wondering, “How do I extract single photos from a YouTube video?”
I’d like to share with you a technique I use to screenhot the images in my videos – not quite extracting, but works well for me.
Quick question – is this your video?
Or is it someone else’s?
What are you planning to do with the images?
- If they’re not yours, have you checked with the video’s owner to find out if they’re copyright-protected? It’s better to be safe than sorry, so getting permission up front is the best way to go.
On a Mac
Here is my process:
- play the video on a computer
- click PAUSE or STOP when you see the first image you wish to copy
- if the video is not zoomed on the computer, do that now so you will have the largest view of the image
- on my Macbook, I press Command-Shift-4 to select a part of the screen to create a screenshot
- if I want to select the entire screen, I press Command-Shift-3
- the screenshot is saved to my Desktop
- if there are more images I wish to save, I follow the same steps.
Once I have screenhots of all the videos, they can be edited etc.
On a Windows PC
- select the PrtScr (Print Screen) button
- the screenshot will be copied to the Clipboard
- open an image editing tool (like Microsoft Paint)
- paste the screenshot into the image editor
- save the file to a folder on the computer
- there are also Snipping tools available, but as I’m a Mac user, I’m not familiar with them – a search online will find them quickly for you.
Did this answer the question, “How do I extract single photos from a YouTube video?”
I hope this helps, best of luck!
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Teena Hughes