Mac Screen Grab FTW
If you use a mac, as I hope you do, you should know about the Grab tool. It’s a screencapturing tool that even supports selecting portions of your screen, which is great. Except…It saves it in .tiff (no one knows why!?)
The problem is, of course, that your screen grab is *probably* going to the internet, which largely doesn’t support .tiff. So your stuck opening up photoshop/gimp right? No more!
Instead,
- open up Preview > File > Take Screenshot and pick your favorite method of screen capture: Screen, Window or Selection.
- Take your screenshot and click Save.
- When Save pops up, you magically have all kinds of formatting options, (click the picture).
- Time Saved.
Tags: grab, mac, preview, screen capture
Posted on Thursday, September 10th in Best Practices.
Great tip, thanks for sharing
love me some screen grab. and yes… preview is awesome for save as
Snow Leopard is great. I believe you can also screen-cast now with preview. Let me know if I'm right about this one.
hmm I'm looking for it, but I don't see it. If you find it I would love to know, but I can't find it.
It is possible somehow without an extra application because Adrian Rodriguez did it for me.
the next post talks a little bit about it. Dude. Thanks for the heads up. what a great feature!