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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by eproxus »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #142
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.

I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is: Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file. I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process. Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?

Doesn’t selecting Preview (instead of the folder, as suggested in the article) let you skip the saving-to-disk part?

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shmoogy wrote: post #52
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.

I felt $29 was a bit much considering greenshot and other free things on windows that do similar ... but I use it hundreds of times some days and it's overall great.

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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by eproxus »

staindk wrote: post #149

Windows-only recommendation so this is only somewhat related - but if you want a powerful, (mostly) well-thought-out, (seemingly) lightweight screenshot taker + editor on Windows, do have a look at ShareX[1]. It's completely free and you can tweak various workflows and map them to key combinations. I've had a "manual screenshot -> optional editing -> upload to imgur/save to clipboard" workflow bound to a mouse button…

Windows has the built in Snipping Tool which is quite similar to what macOS has: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-too...

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by aidos »

cassianoleal wrote: post #144
aidos wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say share as needed, but I’ve not found a great way to just grab it to the clipboard or get the file handle from there. My go to workaround is to screenshot, annotate, screenshot the annotation tool into clipboard and paste that. (I know)

⌘c after annotating in the way GP mentioned copies the annotated screenshot to the clipboard, you don't need to screenshot the tool.

I couldn’t get that to work. So annotate, and with Lou t doing anything else, just cmd-c?

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by FabHK »

Hammershaft wrote: post #158
susam wrote: post #45

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 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.

> essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory

How is that an essential function? My mom has never needed it in 20 years of using Macs. And when I want to know about hidden files, I pop open a terminal and ls -la.

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chrisseaton wrote: post #106
MauranKilom wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PNG should be just as good at gradients as it is at constant color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Filt... It can encode the difference to the previous pixel either up or above (or some combination). In purely horizontal or vertical gradients that's just as efficient as encoding constant color (and in fact, the Wikipedia page shows an example). For gradients in other directions, it depends on…

Doesn't that example show that a 256-step gradient takes 256 bytes? A 256-step run of the same colour takes just a couple of bytes due to RLE, doesn't it? (Not an expert.)

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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by lostlogin »

kzrdude wrote: post #126
dagmx wrote: post #7

You can just hit the option key to take a screenshot of an app without the shadow. No need to go and change system wide defaults

If screenshots are a part of the daily workflow, changing the setting makes everything easier

Wish I could change copy/paste to always work without copying style.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by raarts »

robenkleene wrote: post #87

One for people like me who love to get the padding just right: Hold spacebar while dragging a screenshot area to reposition the upper-left corner of the drag area.

Can you explain the exact steps more? If I press spacebar, the mouse pointer turns into a camera.
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