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