Snipping Tool

[Kimbie]

I use the snipping tool a lot on my Win7 machine at home and at work, but I have been unable to find anything like it on OSX.

Does it exist built in or do I need a 3rd party app

Thanks

Kimbie

 

[miles01110]

Command + Shift + 3; then draw a box around what you want the picture of.

 

[Kimbie]

Command + Shift + 3; then draw a box around what you want the picture of.

Thanks

 

[GGJstudios]

Command + Shift + 3; then draw a box around what you want the picture of.

Don't you mean Command+Shift+4?

Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts

Shift-Command-3 = Capture the screen to a file
Shift-Control-Command-3 = Capture the screen to the Clipboard
Shift-Command-4 = Capture a selection to a file
Shift-Control-Command-4 = Capture a selection to the Clipboard

 

[wilsonhaven]

I use Grab.app and the little elephant menu option from Evernote. Both work well for me. I tried the SnagIt beta and that worked well too. Those are options.

Cheers

 

[kRobbin]

Snippet is a lot easier to use than CTRL-Shirt-3-Space-whatever or Grab, would like to see Grab support more file types.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

Snippet is a lot easier to use than CTRL-Shirt-3-Space-whatever or Grab, would like to see Grab support more file types.

You can change the filetype using the following commands in terminal.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tif
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type psd

 

[GGJstudios]

To change the default format for screencap images, type the following in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg (or whatever file type you prefer)​

To change the default folder for screencap images, type the following in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "/Users/username/Desktop/" (or whatever path you prefer)​