I 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)
macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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#22Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.
macOS tip of the week.
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#23Is 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?
Not a trick per se, but I use Giphy Capture for this kind of thing.
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#24Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.
It'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.
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#25I 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)
> (having a limited color palette)
With translucency and soft gradients everywhere I’m not sure how true that is anymore.
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#26This 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/
I use macOCR[1] from the terminal for that.
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#27Is 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”.
I think the goal was to record just the window, rather than a region of the screen.
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#29Oh 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 Lo…
its confusing & painful as heck to me that these are different tools with different interfaces & capabilities.
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#30If 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
2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com
Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.