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If 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

by m1keil 4y ago

If 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 ago
Cleanshot 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 ago
I 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 ago
Huge +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 ago
Love Cleanshot! It’s so fast and snappy. A rare treat.
jerrygoyal 4y ago
a FOSS alternative is https://flameshot.org/ https://flameshot.org/
- whatch 4y ago
  Amazing tool. And the best FOSS app I ever used on Ubuntu.
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
    I haven't used it, but I really like their website. Describes the tool succinctly and clearly with a few key features highlighted and nothing else.
InvaderFizz 4y ago
I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is: Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file. I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process. Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?
- eproxus 4y ago
  Doesn’t selecting Preview (instead of the folder, as suggested in the article) let you skip the saving-to-disk part?
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    If you click on it as soon as it's taken, it opens in an editor. The editor isn't Preview I don't think, but damned if I can tell what it is.
- m1keil 4y ago
  Just took a quick look and couldn't find any way to do it. That would be a great feature actually.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
  I wonder what the cost benefit on that little popup window for preview is after the screenshot. Too often I find myself being annoyed because it went away before I was able to click on it and as a result I just take another screenshot to get the window to pop up again. Way less often do I find myself annoyed because it stuck around too long.
outworlder 4y ago
I like Pixelmator for even more manipulations (Photoshop-like). $19.99 gives you _a lot_ of value. https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/ https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
- mturmon 4y ago
  Really a great app. Fills in where basic Preview annotations leave off, and approaches Photoshop-level capability.
zmmmmm 4y ago
Worth noting however that just switching to Preview and Cmd-N will open it up with your screen shot from the clipboard, and then cmd-shift-a gets you annotation tools. So this is a pretty streamlined workflow already.

by m1keil 4y ago

deergomoo 4y ago

Cleanshot 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 ago

I 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 ago

Huge +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 ago

Love Cleanshot! It’s so fast and snappy. A rare treat.

jerrygoyal 4y ago

a FOSS alternative is https://flameshot.org/ https://flameshot.org/

whatch 4y ago
Amazing tool. And the best FOSS app I ever used on Ubuntu.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
  I haven't used it, but I really like their website. Describes the tool succinctly and clearly with a few key features highlighted and nothing else.

InvaderFizz 4y ago

I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is: Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file. I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process. Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?

eproxus 4y ago
Doesn’t selecting Preview (instead of the folder, as suggested in the article) let you skip the saving-to-disk part?
- lostlogin 4y ago
  If you click on it as soon as it's taken, it opens in an editor. The editor isn't Preview I don't think, but damned if I can tell what it is.
m1keil 4y ago
Just took a quick look and couldn't find any way to do it. That would be a great feature actually.
SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
I wonder what the cost benefit on that little popup window for preview is after the screenshot. Too often I find myself being annoyed because it went away before I was able to click on it and as a result I just take another screenshot to get the window to pop up again. Way less often do I find myself annoyed because it stuck around too long.

outworlder 4y ago

I like Pixelmator for even more manipulations (Photoshop-like). $19.99 gives you _a lot_ of value. https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/ https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

mturmon 4y ago
Really a great app. Fills in where basic Preview annotations leave off, and approaches Photoshop-level capability.

zmmmmm 4y ago

Worth noting however that just switching to Preview and Cmd-N will open it up with your screen shot from the clipboard, and then cmd-shift-a gets you annotation tools. So this is a pretty streamlined workflow already.