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macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by deergomoo »

m1keil wrote: post #30

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 2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.

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.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by marcellus23 »

nsonha wrote: post #35
muhammadusman wrote: post #10

Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.

people love to talk about how many useful features MacOS has and how user-friendly it is but too many are buried behind a keyboard shortcut with no other way to access. And no "read the manual" isn't it. From certain scale the manual should be out of the window and UI should accomodate for people to learn while using it.

It isn't hidden behind a keyboard shortcut. CMD+Shift+5 exposes the full screenshot UI, and under the clearly-named Options button is a menu that lets you pick the clipboard as the place to save.

Holding CTRL is just a... well... "shortcut" for that.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by reaperducer »

wasyl wrote: post #18

Is 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?

Is there any trick to record a video of a given app window only

Quicktime Player does this.

New Screen Recording → Capture Selected Window

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by susam »

Here 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.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by inyourtenement »

biggerfisch wrote: post #31
muhammadusman wrote: post #10

Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.

you 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

Ahh that’s nice

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by lelandfe »

reaperducer wrote: post #44
wasyl wrote: post #18

Is 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?

Is there any trick to record a video of a given app window only Quicktime Player does this. New Screen Recording → Capture Selected Window

note that this is just a proxy for Cmd-Shift-5, and only takes a screenshot (not a recording)

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by wintermutestwin »

jiux wrote: post #12

Here's how to set screenshots to save in your Downloads folder: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads && killall SystemUIServer

TinkerTool 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.
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