I’ve had a Macintosh since 1983 (yes, a year before it came out) and you still manage to teach me little tricks I didn’t know about. You’re awesome! Thank you so much.
Oh wow, I hadn't realised there were so many refinements to taking screenshots, and ways to make the process fit perfectly with each person's workflow. Seriously useful! Thank you, Gary.
What a brilliant video! Taking screenshots is something I find I need to do regularly and this has given me a much better way of working than I usually do.
Coming from windows where it seemed so easy to take and save customized screenshots, the Mac way was driving me crazy. This video is awesome and now I can actually get good use of the screenshot tool. Thanks!!
Hey Gary, thank you so much for your brilliant videos. This one in particular just prevented me from pulling my hair out. I just converted from Windows onto Mac OS and have never regretted a second of it. All a learning curve but happily undertaken and you have made the journey even more rewarding. Thank you Gary
wish i could give this more than one '"like". as someone who takes screenshots daily by just using cmd4, this was so incredibly helpful. thank you once again for another great tutorial!
Another handy tip. If you use an extended keyboard with F1-F19, is to access the keyboard shortcuts for Screenshots and change the default Shft+Cmd+4 (Save picture of selected area as a file)to one of the Function keys above the numberic keypad. In my case, I used F16. Then whenever I want to create a windowed screenshot, I just press F16. One keystroke with one hand.
Your video is useful for people like me who have been using windows system for such a long time. I'm starting to learn the shortcut trick and how to customize it, just upgrade my work device into mac. Thanks!
Thank you. I have been capturing desktop images for a long time and never thought there would be a better way to do it. When I watched you do it, I still questioned whether it was necessary and now I see that it is in fact helpful to be able to crop immediately and not have to go to my folder to find the document and then crop it. Many thanks
One of your most helpful videos ever, and that's saying a LOT because all of your videos are helpful, without fail. After 30+ years as a Mac technician, I **still** learn things from your videos. I am a Patreon supporter, and hope loads of other people will be, too. Keep making great stuff, Gary!
Gary, it cleared a lot of doubts and gave some new tips on how to capture screenshots with less hassle. Will have to check that Grab Text to see if it is able to grab languages other than English. Thanks.
Thanks Gary, very awesome hints, especially the last one with the import to the photos app. I simply dropped the screenshot app to the dock, so I simply can access it without remembering the SHIFT+CMD+5 😅😉
Excellent video as always Gary! There seems to be another way to save the screenshot directly to Photos: cmd+sft+5, capture, click on floating thumbnail, select Share, then Add to Photos. Seems easier than setting up a Folder Action.
Gary, Cmd/Shft/5 - Love It!! So many options -Thx. You mentioned not wanting screenshots on iPhone and iPad going straight to photos? Just click the little screenshot preview before it disappears, edit your shot, send it wherever you want, then trash it from there. No photo saved with no data used uploading to iCloud. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Gary, absolutely this was one of your best videos for me! I screenshots from Facebook etc. on a daily basis & have folders on my desktop for them. In other words I clutter it all up! I do shift/command/5 a lot so I can just capture what I want but these tips will help me get back to a nice desktop. Can't wait to set this up! You are lucky I don't live in your city. I would be asking you questions all of the time 😊 I really want to play around with your new app also! Thanks for everything!
I actually prefer using CMD+SHIFT+4. Good to know is that while doing a selection you can hold down the spacebar to move the selected area around. And if you tap the spacebar before making a selection you can capture a window (when also holding OPTION you don't get the blur around the window which can be useful if you want to use it for example in Pixelmator but without the blur). If you know these tricks, then using CMD+SHIFT+4 is a bit faster than using CMD+SHIFT+5 and then selecting the right tool.
Wow, thank you!! I use Windows for work and with my Mac always struggled with screenshot... but the Automator part blew me away. Totally subscribing to you channel.
Great video, Gary. I particularly like the Automator trick at the end of your tutorial, where you show how to iron out some inconsistencies between iOS and macOS, i.e., setting the same location where screenshots are saved.
Hi Gary. Could you please run a chance of an instruction how to display multiple text rows in a cell with checkboxes someday? I would really appreciate it.
Always helpful. I am already using the Shift-Command-5 combination to give me a choice and add to the clipboard for ease. But I am always interested in your use of Automator commands which I am still to fully understand and master. They are very useful when I figure out how to create them!
How very bizarre that the default screenshot storage location on an iPhone or iPad is the Photos app, but a person has to go through odd contortions on a Mac to even route screenshots to that same Photos app. Why is it not the default, or at least a clear and simple pull-down option?! Thank you for this super informative video.
Mac has saved screenshots as files since long before Photos existed. And the iPhone has screenshots before you could save files on it, so the screenshots had to go somewhere.
On iPhone, if you don't want a screenshot to be saved to photos, just touch the thumbnail while it's showing. The ss will open in mark-up mode. Then click the share button and select where to send the image (files, messages, etc.). Then touch OK at top left and select the Delete option in the menu.
Thanks Gary for this tutorial. I am missing the Shift-Command-5 keyboard shortcut from the ScreenShot options! How can I add it? It's NOT part of the Defaults in this old 2010 iMac!!!
Gary, I recently got a new iMac and noticed that it was saving screenshots in a new mail message. If I remember right, I think it was actually opening the mail app and it was ready to send off to somebody. Now it’s not doing that. I watched your video thinking you were going to get to that. Have you ever seen that or any ideas on it?
On my HP Dev One laptop running the Linux distribution Pop!_OS there is a “prt scr” button on the keyboard. There is no additional configuration needed; tapping this key will launch a screenshot dialog. I believe that there is similar functionality on other laptops running other Linux distributions and perhaps also Windows. There is likely a way on Macs to set up a keyboard shortcut for tapping one key to launch a screenshot dialog; the thing to watch out for is to choose a key that does not have some other important use.
Hi Gary. Thank you for (another) informative video. Prior to Ventura I had an app on dock called ?Screenshot which gave me the shift-CMD-5 screen grab option. Any way to get it back or something akin to it? Thx in advance
Great video, but I don´t have the "save to preview" option at all, even though it´s sat to show floating window. How can I decide where my screenshots will go every time then? My Mac is in Norwegian, if that´s good to know.
Great video, thanks. However, I was hoping for a way to save as a pdf or jpeg without, for example, having to save to Preview and then Save As... I'd like the screenshot to go straight to a folder as a pdf. Is this possible?
Hi, thank you for your video! I have a question-why does the brightness get really strong when I take a screenshot from a video on my MacBook Pro? It looks like there's a flash or the brightness is way too high.
I'd like the screenshot to: 1. Select specific section of screen 2. Save to a specified location 3. In the format of my choosing 4. With a name + number of my choosing Is this possible? NB It will not save to "set location" if I choose my external drive.
If you really need all that, your options are to either get a third-party screen capture tool that offers that, or create a Shortcut in the Shortcuts app that does what you want. Otherwise, you can easily do 1 with the screenshot tool, for 2, 3 and 4 you can set it to save to Preview. So then you take a screenshot, it opens in Preview, and you can save it where you want, in the format you want and with the name you want.
@@macmost I ended up using _Shift Command 5_ with a finger dance, but it *refuses* to save to my external drive. Why? Beats me! Doing it via Preview is really clumsy and time wasting when I have to do this many times. I ended up doing a lot of post capture editing in Pixelmator Pro. Selecting exactly 2000x1600 px and saving to jpg with set compression. The numbering I did with Renamer. So a lot more work and time than I would have liked. I'll look at what 3rd part options there are for next time. I have memories of at least being able to save to the format of my choosing. Has Apple taken this away, like they have with so many things? What happened to *Grab* that used to be in Utilities?
@@peterbreis5407 Numbering? If all you want to do is rename the files with a number, you can do that in the Finder. You can change the format using Terminal just like always if you really want, though if you are opening them in Pixelmator Pro then what difference does it make until you are done working with it there?
I guess what it comes down to is I don't understand your WHY here. Why are you doing all of this What is your goal. Without knowing that, I can't give you any good advice.
@@macmost Capturing the pages of an old book in an archive that won't let me save the images. I am turning it into a pdf which I will read on my Chromebook IdeaPad.
Command Shift 5 doesn't work for me for an adjustable selectable area. When I select that option It hasn't selected and doesn't select a screen portion. I get that Mickey Mouse glove icon which isn't able to grab anything, it can only make a screen shot of the complete desktop. What am I doing wrong?
I found a weird solution, I unchecked "remember last location" in the option menu, then I finally got the crosshair instead of the glove icon. After that I was able to check " remember last location" back on without interrupting the partial selection option.
How to remove previous screenshot thumbnail from the next one when i click multiple screenshot of a video thumbnail of previous one also appear on next on can you tell me how fix this without turning of show floating thumbnail
One of my streaming services covers the bottom of the screen with controls when I pause, and the controls persist while paused. So if I had paused to read or examine something, I can't because it's covered. So I try instead to screenshot the moment, but when I look at the screenshot, the browser screen (i.e. the entire movie) is blacked out. Is this something I can bypass? I'm not trying to record the movie, I just want to capture a frame for closer inspection.
@@macmost Thanks. Disney+ doesn't do it, but Hulu does. I thought it might be some java script I could block. When someone picks up a note and reads it in a movie, it often goes away before I can finish reading it.
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You forgot another way to take screenshots. Take a picture of the computer screen with the phone, and email it to yourself. Shockingly, I know many people who had been doing that until I told them about the screenshot capability of macOS itself.
I’ve had a Macintosh since 1983 (yes, a year before it came out) and you still manage to teach me little tricks I didn’t know about. You’re awesome! Thank you so much.
Again, a deep dive into a topic so thorough my ears are popping! 🤯 Thank you Gary for your many contributions to the Mac community.
Oh wow, I hadn't realised there were so many refinements to taking screenshots, and ways to make the process fit perfectly with each person's workflow. Seriously useful! Thank you, Gary.
What a brilliant video! Taking screenshots is something I find I need to do regularly and this has given me a much better way of working than I usually do.
I was specifically searching for how to turn off the floating thumbnail, and as always, MacMost did not disappoint. Thanks, Gary!
Coming from windows where it seemed so easy to take and save customized screenshots, the Mac way was driving me crazy. This video is awesome and now I can actually get good use of the screenshot tool. Thanks!!
Hey Gary, thank you so much for your brilliant videos. This one in particular just prevented me from pulling my hair out. I just converted from Windows onto Mac OS and have never regretted a second of it. All a learning curve but happily undertaken and you have made the journey even more rewarding. Thank you Gary
wish i could give this more than one '"like".
as someone who takes screenshots daily by just using cmd4, this was so incredibly helpful.
thank you once again for another great tutorial!
Thanks for the Automater trick. I'll be using that with Lightroom folders.
Another handy tip. If you use an extended keyboard with F1-F19, is to access the keyboard shortcuts for Screenshots and change the default Shft+Cmd+4 (Save picture of selected area as a file)to one of the Function keys above the numberic keypad. In my case, I used F16. Then whenever I want to create a windowed screenshot, I just press F16. One keystroke with one hand.
Your video is useful for people like me who have been using windows system for such a long time. I'm starting to learn the shortcut trick and how to customize it, just upgrade my work device into mac.
Thanks!
Thank you. I have been capturing desktop images for a long time and never thought there would be a better way to do it. When I watched you do it, I still questioned whether it was necessary and now I see that it is in fact helpful to be able to crop immediately and not have to go to my folder to find the document and then crop it. Many thanks
One of your most helpful videos ever, and that's saying a LOT because all of your videos are helpful, without fail. After 30+ years as a Mac technician, I **still** learn things from your videos. I am a Patreon supporter, and hope loads of other people will be, too. Keep making great stuff, Gary!
Gary, it cleared a lot of doubts and gave some new tips on how to capture screenshots with less hassle. Will have to check that Grab Text to see if it is able to grab languages other than English. Thanks.
Another great video. Thank you so much. I'm always referring people to macmost.
Thanks Gary, very awesome hints, especially the last one with the import to the photos app. I simply dropped the screenshot app to the dock, so I simply can access it without remembering the SHIFT+CMD+5 😅😉
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️
Thank you. This newbie loves learning more than the basics.
Excellent video as always Gary! There seems to be another way to save the screenshot directly to Photos: cmd+sft+5, capture, click on floating thumbnail, select Share, then Add to Photos. Seems easier than setting up a Folder Action.
When I discovered CMD-Shift-5 I thought I had screenshots licked; but I just learned so much more. Thanks Gary!
Thanks!
Gary, Cmd/Shft/5 - Love It!! So many options -Thx. You mentioned not wanting screenshots on iPhone and iPad going straight to photos? Just click the little screenshot preview before it disappears, edit your shot, send it wherever you want, then trash it from there. No photo saved with no data used uploading to iCloud. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Gary, absolutely this was one of your best videos for me! I screenshots from Facebook etc. on a daily basis & have folders on my desktop for them. In other words I clutter it all up! I do shift/command/5 a lot so I can just capture what I want but these tips will help me get back to a nice desktop. Can't wait to set this up! You are lucky I don't live in your city. I would be asking you questions all of the time 😊 I really want to play around with your new app also! Thanks for everything!
I wish there was a quick & easy way to give a title to the screenshots before saving instead of having to go into finder, click info and then rename.
Set to "save to" Preview. Then you take a screenshot, it opens in Preview, and then Command+S or Command+W and type a name.
Thanks very much! This tip will save me a ton of time.
Shottr has some nice options built in.
I actually prefer using CMD+SHIFT+4. Good to know is that while doing a selection you can hold down the spacebar to move the selected area around. And if you tap the spacebar before making a selection you can capture a window (when also holding OPTION you don't get the blur around the window which can be useful if you want to use it for example in Pixelmator but without the blur).
If you know these tricks, then using CMD+SHIFT+4 is a bit faster than using CMD+SHIFT+5 and then selecting the right tool.
O my word, finally I work out how to use screenshot to my best use. Thnx a mill!
Wow, thank you!! I use Windows for work and with my Mac always struggled with screenshot... but the Automator part blew me away. Totally subscribing to you channel.
Fascinating. I didn’t appreciate some of the nuances to screen captures that would help me such a lot.
Great video, Gary. I particularly like the Automator trick at the end of your tutorial, where you show how to iron out some inconsistencies between iOS and macOS, i.e., setting the same location where screenshots are saved.
Thanks. I like that your presentations are clear and to the point.
Shortr does it for me. You guys need to try it. It comes with so many interesting features😊
4:34 I've never thought of that before, thank you for the tip!
As usual there is a lot to learn in your very useful video. Takes time to absorb and remember - several views of the video necessary !
I hate floating thumbnail. I just want screenshot just like what I do in iPhone. Thanks for showing me how to get rid of it. It'll help me a lot.
Excellent! Learned something new as I do with all your videos.
Since switching to a Mac, I’ve been using the Screenshot app. However, I never really dug into its setting and such. So, thanks for sharing…
Very informative videos thank you so much.
This tutorial is really helpful. Many thanks!
Thank you!
This is great! Thanks.
Geez dude. Fabulous info.
Hi Gary. Could you please run a chance of an instruction how to display multiple text rows in a cell with checkboxes someday? I would really appreciate it.
Do you mean in Numbers? Not sure why you would want that. What is the practical use?
Thanks very much, Gary, for this excellent and informative video!
Always helpful. I am already using the Shift-Command-5 combination to give me a choice and add to the clipboard for ease. But I am always interested in your use of Automator commands which I am still to fully understand and master. They are very useful when I figure out how to create them!
So useful 😊thankw
Thanks bunches
Your videos are awesome!! Thank you so much! 👏🏻
Wow, learned so much good job mac most man!
awesome video tutorial
How very bizarre that the default screenshot storage location on an iPhone or iPad is the Photos app, but a person has to go through odd contortions on a Mac to even route screenshots to that same Photos app. Why is it not the default, or at least a clear and simple pull-down option?! Thank you for this super informative video.
Mac has saved screenshots as files since long before Photos existed. And the iPhone has screenshots before you could save files on it, so the screenshots had to go somewhere.
On iPhone, if you don't want a screenshot to be saved to photos, just touch the thumbnail while it's showing. The ss will open in mark-up mode. Then click the share button and select where to send the image (files, messages, etc.). Then touch OK at top left and select the Delete option in the menu.
Thanks Gary for this tutorial. I am missing the Shift-Command-5 keyboard shortcut from the ScreenShot options! How can I add it? It's NOT part of the Defaults in this old 2010 iMac!!!
You'll need to update your version of macOS. 2010 doesn't say anything, which version of macOS is it running?
Gary, I recently got a new iMac and noticed that it was saving screenshots in a new mail message. If I remember right, I think it was actually opening the mail app and it was ready to send off to somebody.
Now it’s not doing that. I watched your video thinking you were going to get to that. Have you ever seen that or any ideas on it?
On my HP Dev One laptop running the Linux distribution Pop!_OS there is a “prt scr” button on the keyboard. There is no additional configuration needed; tapping this key will launch a screenshot dialog. I believe that there is similar functionality on other laptops running other Linux distributions and perhaps also Windows. There is likely a way on Macs to set up a keyboard shortcut for tapping one key to launch a screenshot dialog; the thing to watch out for is to choose a key that does not have some other important use.
Hi Gary. Thank you for (another) informative video. Prior to Ventura I had an app on dock called ?Screenshot which gave me the shift-CMD-5 screen grab option. Any way to get it back or something akin to it? Thx in advance
Yes. It is in Applications/Utilities. Add it to the Dock if you like.
@macmost, Is there a way to take a screen shot while paging up or down through the text a screenful at a time?
Great video, but I don´t have the "save to preview" option at all, even though it´s sat to show floating window. How can I decide where my screenshots will go every time then? My Mac is in Norwegian, if that´s good to know.
Have you maybe selected one of the two RECORDING options instead of one of the three screenshot options? Only a screenshot can be opened in Preview.
For some reason my screenshot options exclude the ability to save to preview any advice on how to solve this would be appreciated.
Great video, thanks. However, I was hoping for a way to save as a pdf or jpeg without, for example, having to save to Preview and then Save As... I'd like the screenshot to go straight to a folder as a pdf. Is this possible?
Yes. See macmost.com/10-tips-and-tricks-for-taking-screenshots-on-your-mac.html
@@macmost THANKS!!!
Hi, thank you for your video! I have a question-why does the brightness get really strong when I take a screenshot from a video on my MacBook Pro? It looks like there's a flash or the brightness is way too high.
Just an indicator that you took a screenshot.
@@macmost no, becaouse the pic stays with too much brightness.
@@camilarios8320 Then you must be describing something different. I don't know what would cause that.
@@macmost Yes, no worries thank you very much! It was the quick time and their option HDR, so complicated. Thanks :)
How can I get an extended screenshot ? I want a single screenshot of a webpage. I currently have to click 2 and then combine them in pdf.
What about capturing videos?
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Could you not have the screenshots of into the Photos Screenshots Album?
Barry
You can set it up that way with my Automator tip, sure.
I'd like the screenshot to:
1. Select specific section of screen
2. Save to a specified location
3. In the format of my choosing
4. With a name + number of my choosing
Is this possible?
NB It will not save to "set location" if I choose my external drive.
If you really need all that, your options are to either get a third-party screen capture tool that offers that, or create a Shortcut in the Shortcuts app that does what you want. Otherwise, you can easily do 1 with the screenshot tool, for 2, 3 and 4 you can set it to save to Preview. So then you take a screenshot, it opens in Preview, and you can save it where you want, in the format you want and with the name you want.
@@macmost I ended up using _Shift Command 5_ with a finger dance, but it *refuses* to save to my external drive. Why? Beats me! Doing it via Preview is really clumsy and time wasting when I have to do this many times.
I ended up doing a lot of post capture editing in Pixelmator Pro. Selecting exactly 2000x1600 px and saving to jpg with set compression.
The numbering I did with Renamer. So a lot more work and time than I would have liked. I'll look at what 3rd part options there are for next time. I have memories of at least being able to save to the format of my choosing. Has Apple taken this away, like they have with so many things?
What happened to *Grab* that used to be in Utilities?
@@peterbreis5407 Numbering? If all you want to do is rename the files with a number, you can do that in the Finder. You can change the format using Terminal just like always if you really want, though if you are opening them in Pixelmator Pro then what difference does it make until you are done working with it there?
I guess what it comes down to is I don't understand your WHY here. Why are you doing all of this What is your goal. Without knowing that, I can't give you any good advice.
@@macmost Capturing the pages of an old book in an archive that won't let me save the images. I am turning it into a pdf which I will read on my Chromebook IdeaPad.
Command Shift 5 doesn't work for me for an adjustable selectable area. When I select that option It hasn't selected and doesn't select a screen portion. I get that Mickey Mouse glove icon which isn't able to grab anything, it can only make a screen shot of the complete desktop. What am I doing wrong?
I found a weird solution, I unchecked "remember last location" in the option menu, then I finally got the crosshair instead of the glove icon. After that I was able to check " remember last location" back on without interrupting the partial selection option.
How do you save the screenshot to Files ?
Not sure what you mean by "to Files." Screenshots are files.
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How to remove previous screenshot thumbnail from the next one when i click multiple screenshot of a video thumbnail of previous one also appear on next on can you tell me how fix this without turning of show floating thumbnail
Either turn off show floating thumbnail (why not, as this will do exactly what you need?) or wait a few seconds more for it to disappear.
@@macmost thanks for early response But this problem was not there before, it started just a few days ago.
One of my streaming services covers the bottom of the screen with controls when I pause, and the controls persist while paused. So if I had paused to read or examine something, I can't because it's covered. So I try instead to screenshot the moment, but when I look at the screenshot, the browser screen (i.e. the entire movie) is blacked out. Is this something I can bypass? I'm not trying to record the movie, I just want to capture a frame for closer inspection.
Sounds like that content is copyright protected and can't be captured. Not much you can do about it.
@@macmost Thanks. Disney+ doesn't do it, but Hulu does. I thought it might be some java script I could block. When someone picks up a note and reads it in a movie, it often goes away before I can finish reading it.
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Sorry, I don't understand the question.
You forgot another way to take screenshots. Take a picture of the computer screen with the phone, and email it to yourself. Shockingly, I know many people who had been doing that until I told them about the screenshot capability of macOS itself.
🤦🏻♂️
Very helpful.thank you 🫡👏
Very useful indeed...