> How can you make full-app screenshots (⌘ ⇧ 5 then space bar)
Ahem, cough ... Mr Testa, its 4, not 5 for full-app screenshots. ;-)
macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#12Here's how to set screenshots to save in your Downloads folder:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads && killall SystemUIServer
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#13I usually use COMMAND+SHIFT+4 to select an area to take a screenshot of and then "Save to Clipboard".
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#14> How can you make full-app screenshots (⌘ ⇧ 5 then space bar) Ahem, cough ... Mr Testa, its 4, not 5 for full-app screenshots. ;-)
4 is cropping
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#15Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.
How tf did I not know this. Thanks
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#16Oh 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.
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#17This 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/
If you're on macOS 12 or iOS 15, you can also use the built in live text functionality in Safari, Preview or Photos
True 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.
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#18Is 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?
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#19I usually use COMMAND+SHIFT+4 to select an area to take a screenshot of and then "Save to Clipboard".
When 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.
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#20Is 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?
Yes, Cmd+Shift+5 and “record selected portion”.