I still use Quicksilver, so I press the activation shortcut and type "sc" then enter and I'm into the screenshot app with it's UI available. I can't live without QS!
macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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#222I use CleanShot X, which gives me a ton of easier options for this stuff (and the nostalgia from Skitch) -- highly recommend, included with Setapp too.
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#223Here 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 becom…
I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
If all features had their menu or button visible, that would make the interface more complex.
Maybe they consider this as advanced features, that advanced users will find out anyway.
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#224Screenshot folder was badass! Set it up ASAP!
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#225This 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/
For linux (or GNOME more specifically) there is Frog[1]. It uses Tesseract OCR[2] under the hood.
[1]: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tenderowl.frog
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#226I swear, I have zero understanding of why Mac users are so delighted when they discover previously-unknown features. These features should be easily discoverable . But maybe I'm missing a trick. Maybe there's a deliberate effort in Apple to make only a minimal viable subset of features easily discoverable. Maybe some features have their documentation hidden a little deeper. And maybe accidental discovery gives Mac us…
If you just use the system app, Screenshot.app, then all of these shortcuts are first-class menu items within that app.
You can configure the mapping of cmd-shift-4 (or whatever it is) to the screenshot function, within System Preferences. Along with whatever other specific keybindings you want. It’s not emacs-level customizable, but it’s functional.
It’s actually pretty standard keybinding config stuff.
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#227Windows folks : just get ShareX[1]
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#228If 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.
I like Pixelmator for even more manipulations (Photoshop-like). $19.99 gives you _a lot_ of value. https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/
Really a great app. Fills in where basic Preview annotations leave off, and approaches Photoshop-level capability.
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#229Here 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 becom…
I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
> Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
I'm fairly certain, it's in the menu bar too
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#230Here 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 becom…
I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.
I fully agree. macOS is a nightmare of usability.
For showing hidden files and file extensions, there's a Terminal command you can run to permanently set it for every file. Of course, since it's only exposed through some command line utility, I forgot what it was and would have to search again.