Comments on: How to take screen shots on your Mac or PC

By: Victoria-Louise

Victoria-Louise — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:48:17 +0000

Thank you, the snipping tool was a great help for my A-Level Media Studies course-work because I cannot paste things onto the blog; I can only import pictures x
Thanks again x

By: Kiss

Kiss — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:24:47 +0000

I use Screenshots Remote to take screenshots on Mac. It is very easy and also you can do it remotely.
http://www.actymac.com/Screenshots_Remote/

By: Lushik

Lushik — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:46:15 +0000

Hey, guys!
I found a program to take screenshots on Mac! It is called Screenshots Remote.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenshots-remote/id366470372?mt=8

There is also a tutorial about this program on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfK5Bb2YFc

What do you think about this program?
It can take screenshots itself or even remotely.I liked it.
What is your opinion?

By: and that's all there is to it

and that's all there is to it — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:57:13 +0000

Thanks Garrick, thanks Back eye. Nice to have great people like you out there !

By: Garrick Chow, senior trainer and evangelist

Garrick Chow, senior trainer and evangelist — Sat, 22 May 2010 15:49:36 +0000

Yes, as “black eye” notes above, you can google the methods for changing the default name and format of the screenshots. Unfortunately, most of these involve using Terminal, so you need to be comfortable typing in commands. There’s also a free utility called TinkerTool (http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html), that includes the ability to set the file format and other options for screen shots.

By: black eye

black eye — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:01:53 +0000

to “and that’s all there is to it”…

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050627224051361

or google “change default snapshot format mac” and you’ll come up with other explanations

By: Zabi Shahrani

Zabi Shahrani — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:34:19 +0000

Yeah, thanks lynda.com, this video was useful for me.,.

nice job

By: Bob Flisser

Bob Flisser — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:22:01 +0000

One more tip for Windows users: if you have Microsoft OneNote (part of Microsoft Office), press the Windows key + S. That grays-out the screen and turns the mouse pointer into a cross hair. Then select any part of the screen to capture it to the clipboard.

– Bob F., lynda.com author

By: And that's all there is to it

And that's all there is to it — Fri, 21 May 2010 17:24:04 +0000

You say : “On Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, the file is saved as a PNG and named as “Screen shot” followed by the date and time you took the shot. Earlier versions of Mac OS X name screenshots as Picture 1, Picture 2, etc., and save them as either PNGs or PDFs.”

OK, fine but how do we change that ? (I mean the long boring name [screenshot etc etc etc]) and the extension (is there some Preferences where we can say we prefer .jpg ? for instance)

thanks