You may already know how to take screen or a portion of the screen in Mac OS X. You can press ⌘,Shift,3 keys to capture the entire screen or ⌘,Shift,4 to capture a rectangular portion of the screen. By default the screenshots will be stored as .png files. But you can easily change the default settings anytime and can save the screenshots as .jpg, .pdf, .gif or .tiff file format. Here, first we have changed the default settings to save the screenshots as .pdf files later we have changed it to .jpg.
When you take a screenshot on your Mac – using the Shift-Command-3 shortcut to capture the whole screen, or Shift-Command-4 to capture a portion of it – the image files are saved straight to. Save the file by going to ‘File’, followed by ‘Save’. Now you can choose the name of the file, as well as the format in which you want to save it:.png,.jpeg or.tiff. Source: alvinalexander.com. How to print a screenshot on Mac? Locate the screenshot that, by default, will have been saved on your desktop, and open it by double clicking.
As per your requirements you may change the default format anytime:
.jpg/.png: Suitable for web uploads or for using in blog posts.
.gif: Because of the lowest size on disk, it’s suitable as resources of .css files (as it can reduce the loading time of a website).
.tiff: Suitable for Printing.
.pdf: Suitable when you are capturing Web pages, rich-documents, Capturing applications like Numbers, Pages.
Steps capture screenshot as PDF or JPEG in Mac OS X
1. Open Terminal: While you are in Finder press Shift,⌘,A to open Applications and then click on Terminal. You can also open Launchpad and search for Terminal.
2. Now in terminal run below commands to change the screen-capture format to .pdf.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf;
killall SystemUIServer;
Now take screenshot by pressing ⌘,Shift,3 or ⌘,Shift,4, you will find that the screenshot has been saved as a .pdf file.
run below commands to change the screen-capture format to JPEG.defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg;
killall SystemUIServer;
The process is same for .gif, .tiff or to revert back to default .png. That’s it.
If your life depends on spending time with a Mac computer, then you probably know that the screenshots which you capture are saved in the PNG format by default. Though this format contains more detail, it occupies space on your hard disk even without your notice if there are plenty of such images. Besides that, it will take more time to upload or share the PNG format images online if you are on a slower internet connection. The best way to tackle this issue would be to save the images in the JPG format.
You can save the images once again in JPG format by manually opening and editing each and every PNG format image, but this process consumes a lot of time. That’s why, I am going to share you two ways on how to save the screenshots in JPG format in Mac computers.
Ways to Save screenshot in Jpg format on mac computers
Way 1: To make changes in the Terminal using a command
If you know how to use a terminal, you can literally play with your Mac computer. Type the following command to change the default format to JPG to save the screenshots.
You may also save the screenshots by default in the PDF format. You will have to type the PDF at the end of the command mentioned above instead of the JPG. I know you are confused, that’s why I am sharing the command to save the screenshots in PDF format below.
You may also try the other formats such as TIFF by editing the command and explore much more.
Way 2: To use a third party software to capture the screenshots
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There could be cases when you will have to use both the JPG and PNG formats to save the screenshots. In such cases, you cannot edit the command every time manually as it will consume a share of your time. This is where you will have to rely on third party apps to save the screenshots in any format as you wish. The best option would be Monosnap, which can be downloaded from the Mac store for free.
I hope these ways to Save screenshot in Jpg format on mac will work for you. Share in the comments below if you are facing any problem.
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