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How To Save Picture in Facebook?

I don't think facebook allows downloading of pictures... but if you have an online cloud service like dropbox, google drive, etc. you can share the image there... then download it from the cloud.
 
sorry, thats not my question.
When my friends post his photos in Facebook, how can I save it to S2?
 
The fastest and practical way if you would just want to keep it in your S2 is by viewing the facebook photo in full screen mode and have a screen capture!! :)
 
barryyam said:
sorry, thats not my question.
When my friends post his photos in Facebook, how can I save it to S2?
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Depends on what you're using... I'm referring to the official Facebook app for android - which doesn't have a save function for pictures you view (not that i know of) but the workaround would be to put/share the picture to your online cloud and then download the picture to your phone after its stored in the cloud. Tedious, but it does the job.

You can also do wengyew's suggestion... put the image to fit your screen, and press Home+Power buttons (ICS : Volume Down+Power Buttons) on your phone - that should take a screenshot... but the disadvantage is... its not high resolution.

If you use a mobile browser, then it depends on whether the browser can do it, all you need to do is hold your finger on the image thats loaded and depending on the menu that appears, you save your picture.

Lastly, if all these fail, use a desktop computer, save those pictures, plug your phone to USB... and directly copy them to your phone's USB storage or SDCard.
 
i find this interesting now I've looked at it. You can use any facebook pic and set it as wallpaper or contact photo. that means that once you close and logout of facebook you now have that pic saved somewhere on your phone, as its been used by the phone as your wallpaper etc. now, when it comes to finding the location of that pic, thats another matter.

i tested it by saving a pic as my wallpaper, but was unable to find the pic on my device anywhere. i'm curious now...
 
Like naith_kk mentioned, you can actually press the share option while you are viewing the facebook picture in full screen mode and you may choose from your options which app to proceed with your sharing.

For example I have a photo editor app which presents me with option to save the picture upon pressing the share button.

Hope it helps you :)
 
Yes your right. Also in sharing the pic, you can select messaging which will add the pic to a message. From there I guess you have the usual save option too.
 
wengyew90 said:
Like naith_kk mentioned, you can actually press the share option while you are viewing the facebook picture in full screen mode and you may choose from your options which app to proceed with your sharing.

For example I have a photo editor app which presents me with option to save the picture upon pressing the share button.

Hope it helps you :)
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FlawedbyDesign said:
Yes your right. Also in sharing the pic, you can select messaging which will add the pic to a message. From there I guess you have the usual save option too.
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That's also a good way to do it... but its very troublesome when you deal transferring with lots of pictures... because the app will sometimes (more often) launch to edit the pic... you have to save, switch to fb app, save to editor, save... tedious job.

@Flawed - not recommended to save to messaging... as some tend to shrink image for mms.
 
Yeah, not a bad app but from some comments made by existing users, it seems that the app have its flaws. So proceed and use with caution ya :rolleyes:
 
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