screenshots in .jpg?

[xodonniedarko]

Before i formatted/installed Leopard, I had a program or something that made my default screenshots as a JPG rather than PNG. I use my screenshots a lot because it's basically how I resized my pictures :X. I could just use the image capture tool to resize everything, but it also makes them PNG. I don't want PNG!!!


OR is there some kind of program that I can use to resize my photos easily all to the same size? Sighh.

 

[Eidorian]

You can make a batch resize process in Automator.

 

[xodonniedarko]

will it be JPG?

 

[Eidorian]

will it be JPG?

I suggest you look at Automator for making a batch resize workflow.

What did you use to resize images beforehand?

 

[panoz7]

Tinkertool allows you to change the screenshot format among other things.

EDIT: and by the way, preview can resize an image and save it in different formats.

 

[jdavtz]

PNG is generally better for screenshots as it doesn't blur text, which is probably what 'most' people use screenshots for.

To resize pics quickly, open the file in Preview then use the Tools menu > Adjust Size... then you can save the file as JPG (or whatever you want, or whatever it was originally)

 

[xodonniedarko]

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, b ut whenever I resize a picture via Preview, it keeps my pictures at 1.1mb. I'd rather them saved as a jpg with 250kb.

Yeah?

 

[xodonniedarko]

Tinkertool will work. Thank you

 

[panoz7]

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, b ut whenever I resize a picture via Preview, it keeps my pictures at 1.1mb. I'd rather them saved as a jpg with 250kb.

Works fine for me... Is this what your resize window looks like?

EDIT: I'm glad tinkertool worked out.

 

[Consultant]

There is a one line code to make the change.

GOOGLE: osx change png screenshot to jpg

 

[jdavtz]

I'm glad you found a solution, but if you're resizing more than one picture at a time I'd suggest creating an Automator workflow that will go through a folder of images and resize them all automatically and save them off into a folder of your choice, to save you having to open each one manually, Cmd-shift-4 drag over it (I presume that's how you're doing this), then move all the resulting files off the desktop.

 

[xodonniedarko]

I'm glad you found a solution, but if you're resizing more than one picture at a time I'd suggest creating an Automator workflow that will go through a folder of images and resize them all automatically and save them off into a folder of your choice, to save you having to open each one manually, Cmd-shift-4 drag over it (I presume that's how you're doing this), then move all the resulting files off the desktop.

How in the world do I do that?!

 

[mkrishnan]

Modestly to moderately off-topic, look into Skitch. If you're doing a lot of stuff with screenshots and/or webposting, it is indispensable.

 

[::Lisa::]

Before i formatted/installed Leopard, I had a program or something that made my default screenshots as a JPG rather than PNG. I use my screenshots a lot because it's basically how I resized my pictures :X. I could just use the image capture tool to resize everything, but it also makes them PNG. I don't want PNG!!!


OR is there some kind of program that I can use to resize my photos easily all to the same size? Sighh.

You don;t need a program, just open terminal and put this is defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg


If you want to change to gif or png again just edit the last part back to PNG.

Hope that helps

 

[Peace]

I believe the default format for screen captures via Grab is *.tiff not *.png