Learn How To Take a Proper Screenshot On a Mac In One Minute
Don't use your phone's camera to take a picture of your Mac's screen. Instead, use the built-in screen capture tool to take a clean detailed screenshot.
Comments: 12 Responses to “Learn How To Take a Proper Screenshot On a Mac In One Minute”
Victor
4 months ago
On my iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) because its an older model - the latest I can equip it is 10.13.6 ---the Command-Shift-5 key does nothing for me - nothing happens. I assume its because you are referring the the latest OS? Only the C-S-3 & 4 works. Thanks
Victor: It has been around for a long time, actually, But OS X 10.13 is from 2017 so that's too old to have it.
Sheldon
4 months ago
Thanks bunches. Merry Christmas
Larry
4 months ago
MBP M2-Pro @ 14.2.1
Q: Is there any way to change the default screenshots from PNG to JPG or anything else? I'd like to capture screens with a smaller KB/MB than the PNG format. Thanks.
Larry: You can do that with a terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg;killall SystemUIServer
Lindy
4 months ago
Hi Gary, Preview drives me crazy with its instance on making every PNG with an alpha channel. I figure if anyone knew how to stop this default setting it would be you. Thank you for all you do for the Apple community. ❤️👍
Lindy: What's the issue? What's wrong with having an alpha channel?
Charlie Johnson
4 months ago
2023 Mac M3 chip: I can take the screenshot with the floating thumbnail but when I single click the thumbnail, the editing tool bar (markup, etc.) does not appear. What am I doing incorrectly?
Charlie: Do you see any tools at the top? Do you see the button to bring up the markup tools (circle with a pen tip in it)?
LINDY
4 months ago
Thanks for responding.... I rarely need the image to be in alpha mode AND the images are larger. I can live with it... but if there is a way to turn it off when I don't need it that would be great. As it stands now I have to do each image individually. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
LINDY: If there is nothing in the alpha channel (it is a completely opaque image) then it shouldn't be much larger. PNGs are compressed, so if the whole alpha channel is a bunch of 255 (maximum opaque) values then it should compress to almost nothing. I think if you really want 24-bit PNG images and you can't get that from Preview, then the solution is to switch to using a real image editing app like Pixelmator, Acorn, Affinity, Photoshop, etc.
Lindy
4 months ago
Thank you so much for your reply and clarification, Gary - I have Affinity Photo! Excellent program!
I dropped Adobe after they went for the subscription route.
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On my iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) because its an older model - the latest I can equip it is 10.13.6 ---the Command-Shift-5 key does nothing for me - nothing happens. I assume its because you are referring the the latest OS? Only the C-S-3 & 4 works. Thanks
Victor: It has been around for a long time, actually, But OS X 10.13 is from 2017 so that's too old to have it.
Thanks bunches. Merry Christmas
MBP M2-Pro @ 14.2.1
Q: Is there any way to change the default screenshots from PNG to JPG or anything else? I'd like to capture screens with a smaller KB/MB than the PNG format. Thanks.
Larry: You can do that with a terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg;killall SystemUIServer
Hi Gary, Preview drives me crazy with its instance on making every PNG with an alpha channel. I figure if anyone knew how to stop this default setting it would be you. Thank you for all you do for the Apple community. ❤️👍
Lindy: What's the issue? What's wrong with having an alpha channel?
2023 Mac M3 chip: I can take the screenshot with the floating thumbnail but when I single click the thumbnail, the editing tool bar (markup, etc.) does not appear. What am I doing incorrectly?
Charlie: Do you see any tools at the top? Do you see the button to bring up the markup tools (circle with a pen tip in it)?
Thanks for responding.... I rarely need the image to be in alpha mode AND the images are larger. I can live with it... but if there is a way to turn it off when I don't need it that would be great. As it stands now I have to do each image individually. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
LINDY: If there is nothing in the alpha channel (it is a completely opaque image) then it shouldn't be much larger. PNGs are compressed, so if the whole alpha channel is a bunch of 255 (maximum opaque) values then it should compress to almost nothing. I think if you really want 24-bit PNG images and you can't get that from Preview, then the solution is to switch to using a real image editing app like Pixelmator, Acorn, Affinity, Photoshop, etc.
Thank you so much for your reply and clarification, Gary - I have Affinity Photo! Excellent program!
I dropped Adobe after they went for the subscription route.