| Tip 157 | Supertip: Make Better Screenshots |
Macs have powerful screenshot facilities built in, with which you can produce a snapshot of what’s on your monitors at any given time (see Tip 233, Take a Picture of the Screen). Here’s how you can tweak a few things relating to screenshots: the file type, where files are saved, and whether they have a shadow effect applied to them.
Changing the File Format
By default screenshot files are saved in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format (.png). This is as good as any for a file format, but you might find that people you work with demand JPEG or GIF files. To change the default file format, first look up the format you need in the left column of the following table, open a Terminal window (open Finder, ...
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