Monday, April 21, 2008

Saving Images and Movies from TGP Sites


Picture Ace includes special features to make picking pictures from TGP sites easier. TGP (Thumbnail Gallery Post) is a web site that provides links to image galleries (mostly adult content).

The most common problem with TGP sites is that they provide too many links and do not sort them by their content. Picking the links you really need can become a very tedious task. That's where Picture Ace helps you: it allows you to discard links you are not interested in.

Note that if you want to save video as well you should change the image type as shown below.

Suppose this is a TGP site. Below there are links to various car picture galleries:

May 11: Ferrari
May 11: Audi
May 11: BMW

May 10: Toyota
May 10: BMW
May 10: Honda
May 10: BMW

First, set Cars as the current destination folder. Then select the Process Links command from the IE button menu or the IE context menu.

The Links Processing dialog appears. The dialog displays all links found on the web page.



The fields at the bottom are for filtering links. Enter BMW in the first field.

Click the Apply to All button. The list now displays only the links that contain BMW in their text.



Picture Ace allows you to apply more than one filter. Let's leave only links of May 10. Enter 10 and click the Apply to Visible button.



After the filter is applied, the list displays only links of May 10.



Now we left only the links we need, we can create tasks to save large pictures behind the links. Click the Create Tasks! button. Picture Ace starts downloading pictures. Note that by default all pictures are downloaded to the current destination folder. You may want to change this to group the pictures by their origin. Use the Destination Folder dialog to do that (e.g. enable the option to create a subfolder for each web site + web page).

To reset the filter clear all the fields and click Apply to All.

You can also save images and video from TGP sites without opening the Links Processing dialog. Alt + click the link to an image gallery or right-click it and select the Save Large Images command from the IE context menu. Picture Ace downloads images from the gallery.

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