How to download AI-generated images
Short answer
Many AI tools render results as data: URIs embedded in the page rather than as files on a server, so Save image as… either fails or produces an unusable file. An extension that understands data:image/jpeg, data:image/png and data:image/webp can decode them and save proper image files.
Doing it by hand
Some tools have a download button, and when they do, use it — it usually gives you the highest-resolution version.
Without one, people copy the data: URI out of DevTools and paste it into the address bar or a decoder. It works once. It does not work for a session's worth of results.
Where that falls apart
- A data: URI can be hundreds of kilobytes of text — copying it by hand is error-prone and unpleasant.
- Saved this way, files often land with no extension or a wrong one.
- Generation grids produce dozens of images at a time, and each one needs the same treatment.
- Refresh the page and unsaved results may be gone for good.
Doing it with ImgDown
Step 1
Generate, then scan the tab
With your results on screen, click the extension icon and scan the current tab. Embedded data: URI images show up in the list next to normal ones.
Step 2
Filter to the full-size results
Set a minimum width so the interface's own icons and small previews drop out, leaving the actual generations.
Step 3
Download them as real files
The extension decodes each data: URI and saves it as a normal .jpg, .png or .webp in your downloads folder.
Related questions
Try it on the page you have open
Free, no account, and it works on the next gallery you open.