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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by hibbelig »

giantrobot wrote: post #92
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…

Add in the control key in the shortcut above and the screenshot will go to the clipboard instead of a file. Useful for pasting a screenshot into something like Messages or Slack. Also there's no need to hold down Option when clicking. You can however hit Esc to cancel the screenshot action.

After hitting space to go to select window mode, click select the window and its shadow, option click select the window without its shadow. Not sure why you say the option key is not needed.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by [deleted] »

hackernewds wrote: post #259
tokamak-teapot wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seeing as you and I both know the shortcut, how is it inaccessible or hidden? Just because it’s not there cluttering up the visual interface doesn’t mean it’s hidden. For anyone who thinks they might want it, they can find it. For anyone else, they’ll never see it. Seems about right to me.

I do not know this shortcut. Further, I do not what shortcuts I do not know about.

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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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diffeomorphism wrote: post #244
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…

Just for comparison: https://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/4/4c/Spectacledefau... The default kde screenshot app just has simple dropdown menus for all that. Is command+$, space, option+click really better than PrtScr, click?

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Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by swah »

This week's "superfluous" automation: quick screenshots from an Android device, to run with Alfred:

    #!/usr/bin/env bash

    if ! /usr/local/bin/adb devices | grep '\'; then
        echo "No phone connected!"
        exit 1
    fi

    phonemodel=$(/usr/local/bin/adb shell getprop ro.product.model | tr '-' '_')
    timestamp=$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%Hh%Mm%Ss")
    output_file="Screenshot_${phonemodel}_${timestamp}.png"
    /usr/local/bin/adb exec-out screencap -p >$output_file

    #open -R $output_file # select in finder
    open -a Yoink $output_file # show in yoink

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by reportgunner »

Melatonic wrote: post #202

I thought this was going to about pranks My favourite: Take a full screenshot of your coworkers desktop - icons and everything. Include the taskbar. Now rotate the screenshot left Now set the taskbar to auto hide and rotate the screen settings (either on your monitor or the computer) to the right Set that screenshot as your background If you do it right it will LOOK like a normal desktop with taskbar and everything b…

We were doing this at school when I was twelve.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by marcellus23 »

LocalPCGuy wrote: post #187
marcellus23 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And to bring this back on point, to my very specific original comment, the poster I was responding too said this wasn't "hidden behind a keyboard shortcut" when it most definitely was I'm that original poster. The comment I responded to was clearly referring to holding "ctrl" in order to save to clipboard, not referring to the screenshot ability itself (which as others have mentioned, is not hidden behind a keyboar…

I maintain my comments and opinion, still "hidden behind a shortcut", even if you can find it as an app also. Or even if all you're referring to is the Ctrl modifier.

You and I have very different definitions of "hidden".

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by marcellus23 »

wasyl wrote: post #263
marcellus23 wrote: post #42

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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.

I agree with parent, for example even after pressing cmd+shift+5 there's no indicator or hint that you can press `space` to capture a single window. I don't see how any user would discover that functionality, and I regularly see people surprised they can do that here on HN. Discoverability on macos is atrocious, and even after few years on it I sometimes struggle with basic things

But there's a button for "Capture Selected Window".

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by wingerlang »

lostlogin wrote: post #282
wingerlang wrote: post #279

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Not sure if I am missing something. But it is the default implementation in macOS. Just make sure "show floating thumbnail" is turned on (CMD+SHIFT+5 then click options).

I can open it, and take screenshots. But when you edit the image I can’t tell what the app is. Am I still in the screenshot application?

I understand, that’s a good question actually.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by happymellon »

wil421 wrote: post #290
happymellon wrote: post #260

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Be sure how would I even know this is a thing to Google unless I see tip lists like this? If there was a MacOS shortcut list, grouped by category so that when I want to do something I can search if it is possible without installing a utility, that would be awesome.

Have you tried to google it? It’s the first result. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 Screenshot shortcuts and functions are here. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...

So that first page doesn't actually have the shortcut, it has a link to another page that contains the shortcut.

Secondly, it doesn't have the details on capturing without a shadow in an easy to read format.

Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

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Post by wil421 »

happymellon wrote: post #299
wil421 wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried to google it? It’s the first result. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 Screenshot shortcuts and functions are here. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...

So that first page doesn't actually have the shortcut, it has a link to another page that contains the shortcut. Secondly, it doesn't have the details on capturing without a shadow in an easy to read format.

Apple has only recently created the fancy screenshot utility. It used to only be 3-5 shortcuts for screenshots since I switched to Macs about 15 years ago.
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