If you've ever seen images in YouTube videos (or any other video on the Internet, for that matter) that you'd like to save, then you might be thrilled to learn you can not only save them, but you can also find them in much higher resolution! Sound crazy? Prepare to get your geek on! This trick may seem quite involved, but I promise you that once you do it a handful of times, it won't take you but ~7-10 seconds to find a high-resolution version of the image you're seeking!
1: Pause the video you're watching at the exact spot where the image you want to save is being shown.
2: Use your operating system's "print screen" functionality to take a screen shot of the image you want to save. If you have Windows 7, use the Snipping Tool application that ships with the OS. If you have a Mac, use Command + Shift + 4. Alternately, you can take a screen shot of your entire desktop (which copies it to your clipboard), then open your favorite image editor, paste the image into it, then crop out the specific image you want to save.
3: Now that you have a standalone image of the picture you're interested in, head on over to Google Images. See the tiny little camera icon inside the search box, just to the left of the search button? Click that little camera and you'll see a box pop up that says "Search by image." Within that box, look for the blue text that says "Upload an image," then click it.
4: Now click the "Browse" button, then find the image you took a screen shot of and select it to upload. (Alternately, you can simply click and drag the image into that search box field.)
5: Once your image uploads, Google will then quickly search its massive index of images to find images that look exactly like (or similar to) the image you uploaded! You can sort these images by size, so as to find the highest-resolution one you can find.
6: Cash flow.
Now, there isn't a guarantee that your image will be found, but this method is successful for me ~98% of the time. And the best part about it is that you can use this method for *any* image you see on the Web! Reverse image search truly is an enriching way to search.
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