I need high res shots off Webshots

Technology and Gaming
#1

So I’m trying to gather reference photos for a 3d modeling project. I’ve got some good ones but I’m in desperate need of good, high resolution shots. And I’ve found them…thing is they are on the shithole called Webshots which doesn’t let anyone save or even view high res pictures without being friends with the owner. It is pissing me off to no end that all these perfect shots show up on Google Images results even though you can’t fucking look at them.

Does anyone know a way around this without having to sign up and hope the person who took them is still around and agrees to friend me?

#2

I don’t know how to hack webshots but if you need to take a screenshot of the site you can try screengrab plugin for Firefox, it’s the best tool to capture images of the web.

#3

Link me to the google image results, I’ll see what I can do.

#4

You can’t even view them full screen or larger than the preview so I can’t just print screen them =/

https://images.google.com/images?q=victoria%20and%20albert%20museum%20courtyard&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi#start=0&imgsz=4mp&tbo=1

And does anyone know how I can get those images hosted on Picasaweb in full size? Enlarging them only gives me 1600x1200 but the image results page lists the sizes as almost double that.

This entire Londom album would be nice: https://travel.webshots.com/album/552734753VjxqOL

I’m gonna give in and sign up and hope these people will add me so I can use their photos as reference.

#5

I got it. Here’s two:
https://image59.webshots.com/59/5/61/10/2684561100095006798fiyEIq_fs.jpg
https://image53.webshots.com/653/1/69/85/2532169850095006798pdlbzp_fs.jpg

Let me know which specific ones you need and I’ll get em to you.

#6

Those links give me a Forbidden message

#7

Hey- that’s next to my school!

-Yeah- and so what if you don’t care…

#8

You should take pictures for me ^.^

#9

…strange, they open up high-res images for me.

Here, i downloaded two and uploaded em to tinypic to prove I am not lying. Just send me the ones you need and i’ll download em and reup high-res.
https://i39.tinypic.com/2n7qdd2.jpg
https://i39.tinypic.com/j5gj1j.jpg

#10

I’ve a mediocre 2560 by 1920 pixel camera, if you want shots of certain parts I could always take a few snaps.

EDIT:
Just remembered them having scafolding on the side of the building, I think they’re cleaning it up since the exhibition road walls were filthy black.

#11

Sorry to bump an old thread, but would you be able to do this for me or possibly tell me how to do it myself? I have several hundred pictures I’m looking to save.

#12

printscreen button on your keyboard… then… paste into Ms paint and save as a jpeg.

Also… if its a place you are modeling or whatever. Look at people Flickr pics… So many nice hi res pics… FOR FREE… usually

#13

I know about doing a print screen but that’s not what I’m looking for. Full resolution pictures don’t show up on the Adobe Flash view but it doesn’t seem that there’s any other way to see them full size

#14

Hi, I’ve registered here just to reply to your question, coz I know what a pain in the ass webshots can be - had the same problem with finding a reference picture that I needed and not being able to see it in full res. So if you’re using Firefox what you need to do is to open the page with the image that you want to download, click on the “see the photo in it’s original size”, than it opens with “this photo may only be saved by friends” on top, you press ctrl+u (to access the source code of the page) in the indow with the source code press ctrl+f and in the search field just type “jpg” and it will take you to the line that says - so.addVariable(‘source’, ‘https://image57.webshots.com/557/9/18/27/2656918270095006798vNydSB_fs.jpg’);

just copy the link to the source image, in this case - https://image57.webshots.com/557/9/18/27/2656918270095006798vNydSB_fs.jpg (that link won’t work from here - hotlinking won’t work with webshots, but if you do that yourself the way I explained - it will) and paste it in your browser adress bar and voila! You have the image in it’s original res. If you’re using IE there’s also an option of seeing HTML code, but I find firefox to be much easier for that. Just open the page, click on “see the photo in it’s original size” - than ctrl+u, ctrl+f, type “jpg” copy and paste link to the image and that’s it.
Try that
Hope that helps!

#15

thats how I did it i think lol, sorry for not replying to your PM but thats pretty much it

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