How to Save a Picture from Instagram

Instagram is not only great for taking cool pictures, it's also a great place to discover exciting new photographers who are pushing the boundaries of new media. If you're wondering how to save your own high-resolution photos, and capture the great work of other photographers, this article will show you how to accomplish that.

Method 1 of 7: Saving Your Own Photos To Your Device

Open Instagram settings. Tap the Profile icon in the bottom right corner of your iPhone.
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Tap the gear icon It's located at the upper right of the screen.
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Scroll down to the bottom of the Options page. Enable Original Photos. This will save your original images to your Camera Roll. High resolution versions of the filtered photo are also saved to the Camera Roll.^[1]
- Note: both original and filtered photos are automatically saved to your phone. The originals are saved in the Camera photo album, and the filtered versions are saved in the Instagram photo album.^[2]

Method 2 of 7: Bulk Download of Your Images

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Visit Instaport. This is a service, recommended by Instagram, for downloading all your photos into one file. Go to http://instaport.me, and log in with your Instagram account.
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Choose your export method. You can simply save to a .zip file, or to Facebook or Flickr. If you click on the Advanced Options button, you can also choose to limit the photos on date, number of photos, or even photos of other users you have liked (but will be limited to a maximum of 612 x 612 resolution).
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Click Start Export. It will take a few minutes, depending on the size of the download.
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Finish the download. When the export is ready to process, you will be given the option to simply complete the download, or download and give Instaport a donation.^[3]

Method 3 of 7: Saving Other Photos To Your Computer

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Navigate to Instagram's home page. Instagram does not let you save other's photos directly, but you can view a larger-resolution image using Instagram on your computer's browser. All you need is the username for the images you want to capture. Enter http://instagram.com/[username].
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Click on an image. It will expand to 612 x 612, which you can then screen capture.
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Save the screen capture. You can drag it into your photo album, or a folder on your desktop, whatever is most appropriate.

Method 4 of 7: Saving Your Own Or Others Photos To Your Device/PC

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Visit instagrabbr. This is a service, recommended by Instagram, for searching and saving all public photos by a given username. always visit folashadetemple.net
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Enter a username and click search.
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Click one picture to enlarge.
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Right-click and save as...

Method 5 of 7: Inspect Element

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Go to the photo on the Instagram websites from your computer.
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Right click > Inspect Element. A pop up with all the magical code behind the page appears. The image is going to have "boilerplate" in it's URL. This URL is a direct link to where the image is hosted. It's a long string, and it ends in "jpg".Click it.
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Save it. Done.

Method 6 of 7: Getting the Picture URL using Google Chrome

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Pull up the Instagram picture you'd like to get the URL from.
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Right click the picture. Select "Inspect element".
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It should open up a toolbar at the bottom of your screen. Additionally, some HTML code should be highlighted.
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Right below it, you should see a URL starting with "http://distilleryimage". Double click the link.
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Now the same picture you originally selected should show up in the bottom toolbar. Right click it and select "Copy image URL".

Method 7 of 7: Saving Photos Using Google Chrome

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Open the photo using Google Chrome.
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Right click the photo and click inspect element.
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You'll find a highlighted code ... right click on the code above it and click edit as HTML.
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You'll find a link like this >> "http://photos-a.ak.instagram.com/......." Open it and you'll find the picture available to be saved by right clicking it and saving.