- Here’s how to do it: Locate the image you want to save, right-click on it, and click Copy. Alternatively, you can press the Print Screen key on your keyboard if you want to grab an online image.
- WidsMob Capture. If you are looking for a powerful and easy to use GIF recorder, you can take a.
Screen Snippet - COMMAND + SHIFT + 4 Press the key combo and drag to select the portion of the screen to capture. Alternatively, if you use COMMAND + CONTROL + SHIFT + 4 at the same time, Mac OS X will copy the snippet to the clipboard rather than save it as an image to the desktop.
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As you probably know, tapping your Windows PC’s Print Screen key will place a “snapshot” of the current screen contents onto the Windows Clipboard.
This process is commonly known as “taking a screenshot”, and it’s one of the most useful features in all of Windows for many users.
Once it is on the Clipboard your screenshot image can be pasted into your favorite image editing program. From there you can make changes to the image and then save it to your computer as an image file.
As luck would have it, Windows 10 gives you another very handy option for handling your screenshots…
If you don’t need to edit the image before saving it to your hard drive, you can easily take the screenshot and save it directly as an image file simply by pressing a special key combination. Here’s how:
1 – Press the Windows key and the Print Screen key at the same time.
Note: The Print Screen key is usually labeled either PrtScn, PrntScrn or Print Scr, depending on the keyboard.
2 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open “File Explorer”, then navigate to the Pictures>Screenshots folder. That folder will contain an image file (in .png format) depicting the screenshot that you just captured.
Note: Any additional screenshots you take using this method will be saved in the same folder with sequentially numbered file names.
Of course Windows 10 gives you other options for capturing screenshots, including pressing Alt+Print Screen to capture only the currently active window.
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You could change the default system-wide by using a command line in terminal.
Change the ScreenShot File Format in Mac OS X - osxdaily.com
Various methods (similar steps, plus mistakes posted in their comments) appear
Or use one of the features available in the free 'OnyX by Titanium Software' that
allows an 'admin user' to change the defaults back and forth ~ without Terminal.
{And for occasional changes only, test the idea by making a duplicate of a file
(image) on the desktop and then change its name to something else; and then
add the jpg instead of .png. In several older Mac OS X you can do this OK...}
Some features changed after Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Mt Lion 10.8.5. The
'Save As' control in the Finder menu is gone -- from sometime back then.
You can open an image in Preview, and sometimes change the file type by
using the Export feature. I seldom use that but happened to notice.
Because my daily use Mac is PPC G4 Mini 1.5GHz Late 2005, with 10.5.8, I
tend to prefer the older systems; but not necessarily the lack of performance.
My newest Mac, a Late 2012 i7 Mac Mini, runs 10.9(.5) Mavericks as shipped.
The 2.3GHz quad-core & dual 1-TB 5400-RPM HDDs is odd match-up w/ slow
spin-rate HDDs as a hardware bottleneck, though 16GB RAM helps some. It
Mac Screen Capture Save As Jpeg Online
shipped with 'server' software but haven't used it as such. Mostly stock; I did
partition the two factory HDDs so there are four places to install different OS X.
Anyway, simply change the name of an image to .jpg so it no longer uses .png,
and the system will convert it to open as .jpg even if sent somewhere else online.
Or the command line (terminal) can be used. I've OnyX in several Mac OS X.
I've not re-set the default from .png to .jpg in my Mavericks 10.9.5 system.
Too easy for only a few screenshots to change the suffix .png to .jpg. Yet in
my older Mac that runs 10.5.8, I have set the default to .jpg because that's
helpful to edit images on desktop. Also in older Mac, I use ToyViewer editor.
So you have a few choices.
How To Screenshot On Mac Safari
The OnyX is a fairly good kit if you don't want to use Terminal. Or change
the file name/type and the OS X will change the image type, usually.
Maybe it's possible to see if an option appears elsewhere, to Change All.
Good luck & happy trails! ?
Jul 7, 2017 2:18 PM