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poohat1000

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Nov 11, 2005
271
1
London
anyway to change the default compresssion in screengrabs from .png to .jpg - im fed up with having to re-save in preview everytime to get the file size down
 

mduser63

macrumors 68040
Nov 9, 2004
3,042
31
Salt Lake City, UT
Open up Terminal (it's in your Applications/Utilities folder) and type the following (must be exact, no typos whatsoever) then hit enter:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

After you've done that, type the following then hit enter:

killall SystemUIServer

Hope this helps.
 

eyebeaz

macrumors 6502
Oct 22, 2006
250
1
Also for future reference, the program Onyx can do that without having to type code into Terminal.
 
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