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macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
- jiveturkey 4y agonice. one blog post per year. this one is certainly once-a-year worthy.
- salgorithm 4y agoThank you! It's a fun tradition.
- kzrdude 4y agothe imagemagick trick was even useful to us linux aficionados
- dchest 4y agoAnother cool trick: Acorn image editor can take screenshots of the whole desktop environment (all windows, menus, etc) and put them in separate layers. You can then rearrange them as you wish.
- nsonha 4y agonot a designer but gotta appreciate this
- bluedino 4y agoThat is such a cool but obvious idea. Takes me back to trying to clone the functionality of HyperDock
- kevincox 4y agoThat's a great idea. Capture the data first, then sort it out. The new GNONE screenshot tool is similar because it capurures everything as soon as you hit Print Screen, but it still forces you to decide what to save immediately. It would be nice if has an option to save everything so you can pick out what you want in post. I also want something like this for audio. Record every audio stream on my machine as different tracks. Then I can select which ones I want later.
- rhinoceraptor 4y agoThis isn't totally screenshot related, but TextSniper is nice for quickly getting OCRed text from a selection on your screen, directly into your clipboard. https://textsniper.app/ https://textsniper.app/
- dagmx 4y agoIf you're on macOS 12 or iOS 15, you can also use the built in live text functionality in Safari, Preview or Photos
- Tagbert 4y agoTrue but that only applies to images displayed using the standard image library. TextSniper will capture text from any text displayed on screen, not just within an image. I use it often to pull text from things shared in Zoom. You can do it with the built-in Livetext but you have to do a screen shot, them bring that up in preview to get the text OCRd. TextSniper makes it a single operation.
- BudaDude 4y agoThis only works on M1~ macs. Intel mac don't have OCR for some Apple-ish reason
- kilroy123 4y agoYeah, this tool has become indispensable for me.
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- CodeWriter23 4y agoScreenshots folder in the Dock FTW!! I must confess, I was pretty sure I’d learn nothing by clicking in. I was pleasantly surprised, thanks!
- salgorithm 4y agoYou're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.
- dagmx 4y agoYou can just hit the option key to take a screenshot of an app without the shadow. No need to go and change system wide defaults
- quitit 4y agoThis is the real tip.
- hbn 4y agoThere isn't that much practical reason to include the shadow though. In fact it tends to just make the important stuff smaller when sharing with someone because there's a bunch of border space surrounding the content, and whatever they're viewing in will show all of that unless they zoom in.
- chrisseaton 4y agoThere's no contrast between a white window and a white background if you don't have the shadow.
- kzrdude 4y agoIf screenshots are a part of the daily workflow, changing the setting makes everything easier
- traceroute66 4y ago> How can you make full-app screenshots (⌘ ⇧ 5 then space bar) Ahem, cough ... Mr Testa, its 4, not 5 for full-app screenshots. ;-)
- 88840-8855 4y ago4 is cropping
- saagarjha 4y agoRight, but when you press the spacebar it lets you select a window.
- salgorithm 4y agoFixed! Thanks for the help. I think 4 might technically work, but I meant to say "4", not "5".
- stouset 4y agoI was just talking about DJ9 the other day. You are missed!
- salgorithm 4y agoAwwwww! Thank you!
- jiux 4y agoHere's how to set screenshots to save in your Downloads folder: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads && killall SystemUIServer
- Delphiki 4y agoOr press command+shift+5 click the "Options" button, and then the "Other Location..." option in the "Save to" menu, like it shows in the article.
- wintermutestwin 4y agoTinkerTool lets you edit the Destination Folder, Format and some additional screenshot settings. I much prefer this because it allows me to quickly check the current setting as opposed to a "black box" CLI command.
- lloeki 4y agoMaybe? defaults read com.apple.screencapture location
- barbazoo 4y agoI usually use COMMAND+SHIFT+4 to select an area to take a screenshot of and then "Save to Clipboard".
- obel1x 4y agoWhen you are selecting an area you can hold option when dragging to move the top and left sides of the rectangle. This is useful to select exactly the right area.
- muhammadusman 4y agoHold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.
- tomcam 4y agoHow tf did I not know this. Thanks
- dczot 4y agoAgreed. What I want to know is: how did folks even discover these modifier shortcuts?
- sys_64738 4y agomacOS tip of the week.
- lelandfe 4y agoIt's not a very ergonomic hotkey, though. I click the preview that appears in the bottom right to open, CMD-C to copy, and then click the trash icon to not save.
- biggerfisch 4y agoyou can also flip these keyboard shortcuts around, which I did for the cmd-shift-4, as I almost always want it to the clipboard without persisting as a file
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- gorgoiler 4y agoOh my goodness thank you so much macOS for giving us a set of awesome screenshot tools and a way to edit them immediately in Preview.app. (Capture to clipboard, then command-N in Preview defaulting to new-from-clipboard.) It’s so blisteringly effective to grab a portion of the screen, draw on it, copy the whole thing again and paste it to a coworker in chat or a task tool. I recently discovered that with my trusty Logitech G203 I can write cursive on my images with about the same legibility as I can on a whiteboard. Very pleasing.
- rektide 4y agoits confusing & painful as heck to me that these are different tools with different interfaces & capabilities.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoI was a Windows guy for a long time, most of my life actually. Then circumstances forced me to use a Mac for a period of time and I switched. Now I can barely remember half of what I used to jump around Windows. Our cognitive load really isn't built to handle mastery of multiple wildly different operating systems, IMO. Not many people claim to be both Windows and Mac power users, though I'm certain some of those do exist.
- reaperducer 4y agoIt’s so blisteringly effective to grab a portion of the screen, draw on it, copy the whole thing again and paste it to a coworker in chat or a task tool. You can make it even faster by cutting out the Preview step. When the thumbnail of the screenshot appears in the lower-right corner of the screen, click it, and then you can use Markup to annotate the image right there, and then share it as needed. Since I don't have your Logitech, I don't know if this method will support your hand-writing step. But it's worth a try, and is still useful for drawing circles and arrows and things on screenshots before firing them off to a coworker.
- aidos 4y agoYou say share as needed, but I’ve not found a great way to just grab it to the clipboard or get the file handle from there. My go to workaround is to screenshot, annotate, screenshot the annotation tool into clipboard and paste that. (I know)
- wasyl 4y agoIs there any trick to record a video of a given app window only (or that covers area of a window)? Making screenshot is easy with pressing `space`, is there an equivalent for videos?
- nneonneo 4y agoYes, Cmd+Shift+5 and “record selected portion”.
- mhink 4y agoNot a trick per se, but I use Giphy Capture for this kind of thing.
- reaperducer 4y agoIs there any trick to record a video of a given app window only Quicktime Player does this. New Screen Recording → Capture Selected Window
- lelandfe 4y agonote that this is just a proxy for Cmd-Shift-5, and only takes a screenshot (not a recording)
- smileysteve 4y agoI recommend against changing the format from png to jpg. The sample shows a picture of a dog, but most screenshots should be of applications (having a limited color palette) and must of the time the goal is readability (jpg compression drastically reduces text clarity relative to png)
- tobr 4y ago> (having a limited color palette) With translucency and soft gradients everywhere I’m not sure how true that is anymore.
- MauranKilom 4y agoPNG should be just as good at gradients as it is at constant color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Filtering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Filt... It can encode the difference to the previous pixel either up or above (or some combination). In purely horizontal or vertical gradients that's just as efficient as encoding constant color (and in fact, the Wikipedia page shows an example). For gradients in other directions, it depends on how homogeneous the slope is (because it will zip the diff to the previous pixel, i.e. the slope).
- chrisseaton 4y agoDoesn't that example show that a 256-step gradient takes 256 bytes? A 256-step run of the same colour takes just a couple of bytes due to RLE, doesn't it? (Not an expert.)
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- MauranKilom 4y agoI debated about adding "after the first row", but didn't (because it doesn't make sense for gradients in the other direction). Either way, both my and Wikipedia's point is that a simple gradient filling a 2D surface costs only a "1D amount" of bytes, which is going to beat JPEG (at "can still read text" levels of quality).
- m1keil 4y agoIf you need to do any image manipulations/highlight on your screenshots, two of the best tools I found are: 1) Monosnap (freemium) - https://monosnap.com https://monosnap.com 2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.
- deergomoo 4y agoCleanshot might be the best value for money I’ve ever had from a paid software utility. It’s truly excellent and feels like a natural extension of the built-in functionality.
- shmoogy 4y agoI felt $29 was a bit much considering greenshot and other free things on windows that do similar ... but I use it hundreds of times some days and it's overall great.
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- Benjamin_Dobell 4y agoHuge +1 to CleanShot (and PixelSnap). Definitely worth the money considering I use CleanShot daily. Quick annotations, simple video capture and re-encoding. The integration with PixelSnap is really nice as my screenshots have consistent padding. A small thing, but it takes me zero effort and is aesthetically pleasing.
- moltar 4y agoLove Cleanshot! It’s so fast and snappy. A rare treat.
- jerrygoyal 4y agoa FOSS alternative is https://flameshot.org/ https://flameshot.org/
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- reaperducer 4y agoThe ones I use: ⌘⇧3: Full-screen screenshot ⌘⇧4: Select a screen region to screenshot ⌘⇧6: "Screenshot" of your TouchBar. The last one is useful to me because I use the TouchBar as a tiny screen to output status and debugging information.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoI use ⌘⇧4 followed by space to capture a single window quite often, as well. Did not know about the TouchBar shortcut, as I've never owned a Mac with that Bar.
- cyberge99 4y agoYou might enjoy this one: https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator It creates a touchbar as a movable floating window on your desktop.
- saagarjha 4y agoTip if you’re doing the ⌘⇧4+ space trick to capture a window: if you hold down command while selecting a window you can grab things like alerts that appear as part of the window.
- susam 4y agoHere is a key sequence I use very often. It takes a screenshot of a chosen window without the window's shadow. - First, type command + shift + 4 (the mouse pointer turns into crosshair). - Then type the space bar (the crosshair turns into a camera icon). - Hover the mouse pointer (a camera icon now), to highlight the chosen window. - Finally, hold the option key and click. This sounds like a lot of steps but it becomes muscle memory pretty quickly.
- jarek83 4y agoNice one. I found that it only takes a separate window on the mac screen, but when I want to do it on additional display, it does not allow me to select a window - it highlights all the screen as a window.
- rootusrootus 4y agoMan, you guys are changing my life. LOL. I knew about cmd-shift-4 (and the ctrl version), but I never knew about hitting spacebar to make it do a window.
- baggiponte 4y agoyeah that's a neat trick. of course you can do that with cmd-shift-5 too
- hoten 4y agoFYI, Cmd + Shift + 5 encapsulates all the various options into one UI.
- gkop 4y agoShameless question: is there a special trick to specify a filename for my screenshots in macOS? I manually rename after, and it's cumbersome.
- dylan604 4y agoIs entering the name in advance as you're requesting really any less cumbersome than renaming a generically named file after the fact? In your request, you must provide a file name every time. In the current method, you can just take the snap and not waste time with the filename unless you really just need/want to do it for reasons.
- gkop 4y agoI didn't say in advance. After the fact is likely best, but in a seamless flow that doesn't require using Finder, the terminal, or any other tool. Indeed Gnome solves after the fact, allowing you to just accept the default generated filename, or specify your own, with zero friction. As others in the thread mention, once you've taken the screenshot, it helpfully dumps you in "the editor" (is this Preview.app? I don't know because it doesn't have a title bar..). In the editor, I am give then option to do a bunch of things, but no option to rename the screenshot. This is disappointing. Hence I was hoping somebody here could fill me in on the trick that will make me happy.. (my complaint scoped to Big Sur btw)
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- granneman 4y agoIn Preview, just click on the name in the Title Bar & you can change it there. This works in most Mac apps.
- gkop 4y agoMacOS Big Sur out of the box does not show a title bar for the after-screenshot editor. How do I configure it to show a title bar so I can use your tip?
- Domenic_S 4y agoWant a quick measurement in px for something on your screen? CMD + SHIFT + 4 for the crosshairs, drag from origin to destination, observe the measurement in px. Press ESC to not capture anything. (Only works for horizontal or vertical measurements, unless you're good at doing pythagorean theorem in your head)
- CharlesW 4y agoFree Ruler (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free-ruler/id1483172210?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free-ruler/id1483172210?mt=12) is handy to have if you find yourself needing this functionality often.
- CharlesW 4y agoRandom, related wish: I've always wanted a screenshot utility that captured windows/screens as PDFs (or SVGs), with each element as separate objects at their highest-available resolutions. For example, icons would be 512×512px objects. Vector representations would be created for controls like windows, menus, and buttons.
- jonahhorowitz 4y agoAccording to this comment, Acorn does that? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769907
- hbn 4y agoIf you're in the cmd-shift-4 screenshot snipping mode and you've already started drawing your rectangle, you can press+hold space and drag around to keep your rectangle the same size and move it around.
- robenkleene 4y agoOne for people like me who love to get the padding just right: Hold spacebar while dragging a screenshot area to reposition the upper-left corner of the drag area.
- njhaveri 4y agoWow, I had no idea about this one! Thanks so much for this tip!
- hartator 4y agoLiterally live changing for me. Thanks robenkleene.
- Ivoah 4y agoOr hold option to keep the screenshot area in the same position and resize both corners at the same time.
- maguay 4y agoThat's one I'd never found before. Thank you!
- raarts 4y agoCan you explain the exact steps more? If I press spacebar, the mouse pointer turns into a camera.
- pindab0ter 4y agoHold spacebar after you have started dragging your selection box. It will move the entire selection box.
- Doxin 4y agocommand-shift-4 allows you to drag-select a rectangle. While dragging you can hold down spacebar to switch to moving the selection instead of resizing it. neat feature!
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- battle_hardened 4y agoI dunno. I think the shadow looks good
- user3939382 4y agoMy workflow is take it, mark it up with Skitch if necessary, drop it in Slack or Trello and delete it.
- selcuka 4y agoI second Skitch. I wish there was a tool as good as it for Linux. Deepin Screenshots come close but it has (had?) issues with Wayland.
- petercooper 4y agoSince we're all sharing here, another tool I often use is Paparazzi – you give it a URL and it creates a screenshot of the site (including scrolling as needed). A nice way to keep a visual snapshot of a site for future reference. Its on the App Store or at https://derailer.org/paparazzi/ https://derailer.org/paparazzi/
- geraldcombs 4y agoI usually use the screencapture command to take screenshots since it lets me specify an output file, e.g. screencapture -ow /tmp/myapplication.png
- alx__ 4y agoThis is what Cmd + Shift + 3|4|5 is using under the hood. It's great to use for bash scripting if you need a precise type of screenshot
- austinjp 4y agoI swear, I have zero understanding of why Mac users are so delighted when they discover previously-unknown features. These features should be easily discoverable. But maybe I'm missing a trick. Maybe there's a deliberate effort in Apple to make only a minimal viable subset of features easily discoverable. Maybe some features have their documentation hidden a little deeper. And maybe accidental discovery gives Mac users a little dose of feel-good neurotransmitters that keeps them passing over the odds for the products. Honestly, it's a mystery to me. Anyone from Apple product design here? Why is function discovery in Mac so opaque? I just thought of the recent iPhone my partner upgraded to. No button. It's just a blank slate. Tap? Long press? Swipe down? Swipe up? Aah swipe up! I swear, I find this shit absolutely infuriating.
- joemi 4y agoAnything as complex as an operating system is going to have far too many features for them ALL to be easily discoverable. For something that complex, you want the most fundamental features and the most-used features to be easily discoverable, and everything else doesn't necessarily need to be. I've used many different versions of the major operating systems, and this seems to be true of them all, and is not macOS-specific. As to why "Mac users are so delighted when they discover previously-unknown features"... I think it's partly because Apple (usually) does a good job at adding features. It often feels like they've refined the OS, not like they've simply jammed more things in. Also, I think it's in part because when you get used to using a particular version of the OS, you might get used to not having certain features built into the OS. So when you discover that something you had previously been relying on a third-party app for is now built in to the OS, it's a pleasant surprise. While this isn't actually a Mac-specific thing, I do feel like Apple puts a lot of features into their OS that other OSes rely on apps (or even third-party apps) for, so maybe mac users might have more occasion to discover that something is now built in?
- snowwrestler 4y agoEasy to use technologies are simple. Powerful technologies are not. Apple’s trick is to make powerful things seem simple. They do this by, basically, hiding a lot of features. This makes it easy for unsophisticated users to get going. And power users are willing put in the effort to learn more (that’s what defines a power user). Apple is hardly alone in this. The “full-page screenshot” feature of Chrome is hidden like 3 clicks deep inside the inspector.
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- staindk 4y agoWindows-only recommendation so this is only somewhat related - but if you want a powerful, (mostly) well-thought-out, (seemingly) lightweight screenshot taker + editor on Windows, do have a look at ShareX[1]. It's completely free and you can tweak various workflows and map them to key combinations. I've had a "manual screenshot -> optional editing -> upload to imgur/save to clipboard" workflow bound to a mouse button (Logitech G600) for over 5 years and use it multiple times a day. I downloaded it through Steam but whatever other download options they have should auto-update just fine as well, I would guess. I only see this now but apparently the program is open-source. Never even knew that. [1] https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
- eproxus 4y agoWindows has the built in Snipping Tool which is quite similar to what macOS has: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-too...
- iruoy 4y agoWindows + Shift + S is what I used daily on Windows. The screenshot is saved to the clipboard and can be pasted straight into your chat app. I have Command + Shift + 4 configured to save to clipboard aswell now.
- imwillofficial 4y agoTHERE ARE SCREENSHOTS SETTINGS?!
- salgorithm 4y agoThis is the reaction I hope to get from my co-workers.
- hk1337 4y agoI never thought about changing the save directory to another folder. I’m blown away at the simpleness of it.
- mLuby 4y agoRelated trick for changing an image's size, aspect ratio, or combining multiple images: 1. Open Preview.app. 2. Select the whole image and copy it [⌘-a ⌘-c]. 3. Menu bar > Tools > Adjust Size then click the lock icon. Set to desired dimensions and save. 4. Paste the image over the distorted image. Do what you will with the extra space.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoMany people do not use the power of Preview enough. It is pretty powerful to get most simple editing done easily - Crop, Mark/Scribble, Highlight, edit/arrange/fill in PDFs.
- dvngnt_ 4y agowindows has the best screenshot shortcut and it saves to clipboard it's so much faster
- jagged-chisel 4y ago1) Are you going to share the shortcut? 2) macOS does the clipboard thing (helluva chord): shift + ctrl + cmd + 4
- itstomkent 4y agoWin+shift+S brings up the screenshot tool, then you can just box around whatever you want and it auto-throws that into the annotation tool. You are also able to paste either the pre-annotated screenshot or the post annotated screenshot from the clipboard into other apps without any fiddling about. No need to change default behavior for this extremely common use case. If you are doing it over video, it conveniently freezes the output for the purpose of the screenshot at the exact moment you hit the key combo (without pausing the video or game in real time). It's miles better than the macOS workflow.
- pxc 4y agoThe default is the same on Plasma. By default it's bound to the PrintScreen key, and I think to at least one alternative binding.
- gassit 4y agoAnd on Mac you just press Cmd + Shift + 5. You get every option you want. Send to clipboard, documents, desktop, Preview.app (to annotate, make changes, whatever), Photoshop (if you have it). Draw boxes of what you want, select individual windows, select the whole desktop, even record video. On Mac you can have exactly the same (and actually more feature rich) workflow. Edit: Oh and I forgot one feature which is actually incredibly useful, you can even set a timer until it takes the screenshot. This is great if you need to interact with the window or show state with a highlight for example.
- kungfufrog 4y agoY'all definitely need to check out Shottr too, it has built in annotation and OCR and doesn't cost anything unlike CleanShot (which admittedly, is great too!) https://shottr.cc/ https://shottr.cc/
- FabHK 4y agoIsn't OCR now a systemwide feature in macOS and iOS?
- kehrin 4y ago"Only" for M1 Macs.
- Starmina 4y agoThanks for this. Well I already bought cleanshot but always good to know !
- Tagbert 4y agoPosting today on HN about Shottr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31773863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31773863
- chadlavi 4y agoAs for tip 2, just hold down alt. Takes a full window screenshot without the shadow.
- uxamanda 4y agoHa, i just turned off my desktop so you can't see them all hiding there! `defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false` `killall Finder`
- tokumei 4y agoThe dock folder is a nice touch. I’m still stuck in a GNU/Linux style mindset, which is a ~/Screenshots directory pinned to Finder.
- adammenges 4y agoMacOS screenshot tool on steroids: https://cleanshot.com/ https://cleanshot.com/
- chii 4y agoIt's interesting that all of the good stuff on macs tend to be paid software - ditto with the iOS stuff too. Sometimes i hate that windows have conditioned me to expect freeware.
- Melatonic 4y agoI thought this was going to about pranks My favourite: Take a full screenshot of your coworkers desktop - icons and everything. Include the taskbar. Now rotate the screenshot left Now set the taskbar to auto hide and rotate the screen settings (either on your monitor or the computer) to the right Set that screenshot as your background If you do it right it will LOOK like a normal desktop with taskbar and everything but the mouse will run in reverse and nothing of course will work well.
- reportgunner 4y agoWe were doing this at school when I was twelve.
- b0tch7 4y agoJust pony up for Cleanshot - it's an absolute joy to use, extremely customisable and they ship updates at an impressive rate.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoYou might also try out https://shottr.cc https://shottr.cc (free, and I think Open Source).
- Brajeshwar 4y agoIf one uses Dropbox too, letting Dropbox to manage screenshots is a clean way. I wrote about my steps at https://brajeshwar.com/2015/setup-dropbox-to-manage-your-screenshots-on-mac-os-x/ https://brajeshwar.com/2015/setup-dropbox-to-manage-your-scr...
- bradgessler 4y agoThe annotation tool in macOS is the worst. The amount of clicks it takes to add an arrow, position it, then add text by the arrow is insane. I wish more people would be annoyed by this, but they’re not, so Apple will never fix it.
- aldebran 4y agoTip, May be not a pro tip for people who can’t remember hot keys: CMD + Space Screenshot enter You can do everything from here. CMD shift 4, CMD shift 5, etc are all accessible through here.
- llbeansandrice 4y agoWhy is cmd + shift + 4 the default that folks use/recommend? I've always used cmd + shift+ 5 which is the short cut to launch the full-blown screenshot app. It remembers what you had set last time as well like capturing to clipboard and everything.
- brigandish 4y agoI still use Quicksilver, so I press the activation shortcut and type "sc" then enter and I'm into the screenshot app with it's UI available. I can't live without QS!
- peterkos 4y agoI use CleanShot X, which gives me a ton of easier options for this stuff (and the nostalgia from Skitch) -- highly recommend, included with Setapp too.
- websap 4y agoScreenshot folder was badass! Set it up ASAP!
- wingerlang 4y agoIf you want another tip, put your Downloads folder there as well. Easy access to all files recently downloaded, which you probably want to do something with. Airdropped files also end up there which is nice.
- wiether 4y agoWindows folks : just get ShareX[1] [1]: https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/
- imbnwa 4y agoOT but OP has same name as a notorious Philly mobster
- Zaheer 4y agoAnother free screenshot tool from Zapier: https://zapier.com/zappy https://zapier.com/zappy
- suction 4y agoThe linked content feels very much like a "your first Mac" article. Do we really need this "hey if you bother to actually go into the settings of an app, you can change how the app works" type of content to hit the HN front page?
- ale42 4y agoIf your screenshots are intended for documents, don't change the format to JPEG. Depending on the document (e.g. a PDF file) that compression can happen at a later stage. You can always compress a PNG into a JPEG (it's a lossy operation), but once it's done, you can't come back. I often see JPEG screenshots in student reports (but not only), and they look really bad, as most of the time those are plots, drawings, and present very visible JPEG artefacts (e.g. colored noise around lines and text).
- swah 4y agoThis week's "superfluous" automation: quick screenshots from an Android device, to run with Alfred: #!/usr/bin/env bash if ! /usr/local/bin/adb devices | grep '\<device\>'; then echo "No phone connected!" exit 1 fi phonemodel=$(/usr/local/bin/adb shell getprop ro.product.model | tr '-' '_') timestamp=$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%Hh%Mm%Ss") output_file="Screenshot_${phonemodel}_${timestamp}.png" /usr/local/bin/adb exec-out screencap -p >$output_file #open -R $output_file # select in finder open -a Yoink $output_file # show in yoink
- eg234g23yh23h 4y agodefaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true; killall SystemUIServer Windows registry is so user unfriendly they said...