Ho do you save a "screen shot" as a JPG

[Bob Mac]

Howdy Folks,

Any one know how to save a "screen shot" as a JPG....????

 

[lazer155]

Take the screenshot then open it in preview. Under the file tab is the save as option. Go there and save as jpeg. Then you're done

 

[robvas]

Take the screenshot then open it in preview. Under the file tab is the save as option. Go there and save as jpeg. Then you're done

Save As? You mean 'Export'!

 

[themumu]

Unless you have a good reason to need JPG I would suggest PNG instead. JPG is optimized for photos and will make straight lines, text etc on a screenshot look blurred.

 

[fizzwinkus]

Save As? You mean 'Export'!

it's changed between major releases of os x.
png is usually better for the reasons mumu said.

 

[spike29]

jpg is a pretty bad image file type due to the up-sampling and down-sampling (conversion) of the pixels. use png instead.

 

[lazer155]

Save As? You mean 'Export'!

Sorry yeah export. My fault.

 

[pgiguere1]

Open Terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

Valid formats are: png, pdf, tiff, pict, bmp, gif, psd, sci, or tga

While you're at it you can change the path it's saved at with:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "typeyourpathhere"

 

[Bob Mac]

Thanks to each of you! Saved as PNG

Thanks again to each of you! I saved file as PNG.

 

[aicul]

Thanks again to each of you! I saved file as PNG.

Hi, if im not mistaken you can use onyx to set the default printscreen file format, avoiding the preview/export