Comments on: How to take a screenshot on Mac OS X

By: whatithink » Blog Archive » Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X

whatithink » Blog Archive » Taking Screenshots in Mac OS X — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:16:36 +0000

[...] Moylan of macBlogger.net has an interesting article on how to take screenshots in Mac OS X. As well as all the keyboard shortcuts, Cormac also reviews the Screenshot Plus widget to make the [...]

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:00:28 +0000

That is true, Cormac. But, and this is only for techies and is not me forgiving Apple, you can change the output format. http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X details how to change from png to jpg.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:38:58 +0000

As far as I know, the built in commands only allow you to export your screenshot as .png file. Which can be a bit of a ‘mare when sites only allow jpg/gif based images.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:36:25 +0000

I’ll have to take a look at Backdrop. Thanks for the tip.

I suppose it depends on how often you take screenshots. If take screenshots infrequently then the widget is probably best for you as you may forget the 3-key-combo, but in saying that you can modify the keyboard preferences as you mentioned. But is Joe Soap going to go to the bother of changing his keys when it’s easier to use something like Screenshot Plus?

Taking screenshots on Mac OS X should be more user friendly. I’m surprised there is no utility for it. When I was on XP I used Snaggit to take screenshots as it offered a lot more functionality over ‘Print Screen’, Screenshot+ is the closest thing to Snaggit on Mac that I could find. It does the trick for me.

By: Paul M. Watson

Paul M. Watson — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:26:12 +0000

I have tried a number of screenshot tools for Mac OS X but, and here is where I start to disagree with you, keep coming back to the super simple and useful built-in keyboard shortcuts. Command-Control-Shift-4, then space is very useful and requires no extra running software.

One extra tool I do use for screenshots is Backdrop which blanks out your desktop icons and wallpaper for clean shots.

You can also go into your keyboard preferences to get a list of the shortcuts and change them to easier combos if needed.