This might be a question for Vic, but my understanding is that it's OK to extract the images from PDFs that you have purchased, for use in your own home games. It's not OK to use art extracted from anyone else's PDFs, or to post artwork on a public site without permission.
In other words, if you want to use the art from the NPC Codex in your home game, you need to pony up the ten bucks for your own copy of the PDF.
Assuming you have the PDF, just right-click the image and select "copy image." The image will have a black background. If you want a white background, you'll need to use some kind of drawing tool to paint over the black.
SomePDF has an image extractor (last item in the list)). Works great, however just as a warning, it extracts *all* images, including each pages background, and bars, etc. so there are a lot of images you will end up throwing away.
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This might be a question for Vic, but my understanding is that it's OK to extract the images from PDFs that you have purchased, for use in your own home games. It's not OK to use art extracted from anyone else's PDFs, or to post artwork on a public site without permission.
In other words, if you want to use the art from the NPC Codex in your home game, you need to pony up the ten bucks for your own copy of the PDF.
Assuming you have the PDF, just right-click the image and select "copy image." The image will have a black background. If you want a white background, you'll need to use some kind of drawing tool to paint over the black.
I own the pdf, so that's not a problem. However, when I try to right click on the images, it won't let me copy just the image like I can in other Paizo pdf's. The only options are to copy the whole page, or take a snapshot. It's annoying because I then have to take the image into photoshop and crop out the text and stuff around the image.
I tried the other programs that some of you suggested, but had no luck as well.
Okay, I just checked some of the older pdf's and it's the same on them as well now. Hmm. Maybe something's wrong with my adobe reader.
I have Reader X (or 10.1) and I can just select an image to copy into something like open office, gimp or even photoshop. The background ends up being black, so you have to be familiar with a photo editor like Gimp or photoshop to select what is around what you selected so you can delete it.