ok i'm stuck by something i thought was simple, stealing an image

unwashed potato! · 18 Oct 2009 at 01:31

i'm trying to find a logo to put as an example for a site design, the best i could find of this logo is on this site (top left logo) however the owner is doing something funny to stop me from getting the image. i thought it'd be simple to get it but everything i'm trying is failing me and i just get that silly blank image. anyone car to help me out?

marc2003 · 18 Oct 2009 at 01:34

http://www.joc.org.uk/newjoc/templates/rt_hyperion_j15/images/dark/logo.png

simisker · 18 Oct 2009 at 01:42

Yeah, that required a little detective work

snowdog · 18 Oct 2009 at 01:55

You could also have printscreened your browser window, this works on most sites...

Tripnologist · 18 Oct 2009 at 01:57

Or just opened firebug, clicked on the image and got the actual url of the image from where it's displayed in the css.

marc2003 · 18 Oct 2009 at 02:00

Tripnologist said:
Or just opened firebug, clicked on the image and got the actual url of the image from where it's displayed in the css.

yup, that's how i got the link. how else would you do it?

Tripnologist · 18 Oct 2009 at 02:12

I know, I've become so dependent on it these days, I don't know how I survived without it.

Pho · 18 Oct 2009 at 03:04

Adblock blank.gif and then you'll always get access to the real image.

Here's one for flickr who do a similar thing:
|http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif$domain=flickr.com

simisker · 18 Oct 2009 at 07:28

Tripnologist said:
Or just opened firebug, clicked on the image and got the actual url of the image from where it's displayed in the css.

Ah, I did it the old school way, without the aid of a calculator

Though after such ringing endorsements, I've finally installed Firebug, so thanks

Tripnologist · 18 Oct 2009 at 11:30

simisker said:
Ah, I did it the old school way, without the aid of a calculator
Though after such ringing endorsements, I've finally installed Firebug, so thanks

Once you're accustomed to using it, you'll seriously wonder how you managed without it.

unwashed potato! · 18 Oct 2009 at 11:38

thanks all, i was using the web developer extension for firefox to try a few things but that never showed the background image for blank.gif which was weird as i thought it would have

snowdog said:
You could also have printscreened your browser window, this works on most sites...

print screening would have had the logo with the black background but i wanted it to be transparent

Pho said:
Adblock blank.gif and then you'll always get access to the real image.

Here's one for flickr who do a similar thing:
|http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif$domain=flickr.com

adblocking the blank.gif removes the owners club logo as the logo is the background for blank.gif as far as i can tell.