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Collect and label images from any website into a named folder, with a spreadsheet recording where each one came from. Handpick saves images from any website into a named folder, and writes a spreadsheet alongside them recording where every single one came from. Name a collection, browse normally, and Shift-click the images you want — or hold Shift and press a number to save and label in one press. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Most image downloaders give you a pile of files and no idea what they are. Handpick writes a CSV next to them with a row per image: the page it came from, the search that found it, its real pixel size, the file type, any caption the page gave it, and when you collected it. Weeks later you can still answer "where did this one come from?" The spreadsheet opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets. HOW IT WORKS — ONE RULE, HOLD SHIFT • Click the extension, name your collection, press Start collecting • Hold Shift: a frame follows the cursor with each image's real size • Still holding it — click to save one, 1-9 to save and label it in a single press, or drag a box to take a whole grid of results at once • Press Finish when you are done That is the whole gesture set. Let go of Shift and the page is just a page: plain clicks are never intercepted, so you can follow a result, open the full-size preview or advance a gallery without pausing the collection to use the site you are collecting from. There is also a right-click "Collect this image", for images that respond badly to clicks. LABEL AS YOU GO, FIX IT AFTERWARDS Labels live on the record, not in folder names, so they stay fixable. Add a label and it takes the next number key, printed on its own chip so you never have to look the shortcut up. Rename one later, or merge two spellings of the same word, and every image follows — no files are moved. Press 0 for the ones you cannot call. They are saved, flagged unsure, and the workbench can show you just those when you come back to them. A WORKBENCH, NOT A FLOATING BOX Collecting is a reflex and must not cover the page. Reviewing needs room to read. So they are separate: a one-line badge on the page, and a workbench in Chrome's side panel that the browser makes room for beside the page. In the workbench, arrow keys walk the grid, number keys relabel, N writes a note, X marks something rejected. Labelling one image moves you to the next automatically. Nothing is deleted until you say so, and then it asks. SIZE, BEFORE YOU CLICK Hold Shift and each image shows the real size of the file you would get, not the shrunken copy on screen. Search results are almost always previews, so a large photo and a tiny icon look identical in a grid until you check. Green means 512px or more, red means under 200px. ALSO • Undo — takes back the last image, or the whole last box selection • Convert everything to JPEG or PNG as you collect, or keep originals • Duplicates are skipped automatically • Anything that fails to save is kept on a list with a Try again button • Resume an earlier collection exactly where it stopped • Past collections shows every run, with export to CSV or JSONL PRIVACY Everything stays on your computer. Handpick has no account, no server, and sends nothing anywhere. Your collections live in your browser's local storage and your images go to your Downloads folder. ONE PIECE OF SETUP Chrome's "Ask where to save each file before downloading" setting opens a dialog for every single image, and no extension can override it. Handpick notices if it is on and shows you a one-click fix. Free, and open about what it does.