Please feel free to add your comment or improve this user tip. Hope this helps to prevent the situation when your desktop is cluttered with dozens of screenshots. Press return and paste this command to save changes: In order to revert changes paste this command to the terminal window:ĭefaults write location ~/Desktop/ Now your screenshots are saved in the folder on your desktop. Then paste this command to save changes and see immediate effect So you need to paste this command to the terminal in order to save screen captures in recently created screenshots folder:ĭefaults write location ~/Desktop/screenshots/ If you wish to save screenshots in downloads folder the path looks this way: ~/Downloads/ While Apple has a number of screenshot options built into OS X. If you have already created screenshots folder on your desktop the location of this folder(aka path) is: A picture being worth a thousand words makes screenshots often the most convenient method for conveying instructions to people. If screen captures are stored on your desktop: path/ is the place where you want to save your screenshots. Copy and paste this command to the terminal window:ĭefaults write location /path/ The method was described by TidBITS (a very good website and periodic newsletter with good content) some time ago.
MAC OSX SCREENSHOTS MAC OS X
There IS a method to change the fileformat for screenshots in Mac OS X 10.4.x and later. The new login screen in Lion is covered in the iOS linen texture. Select utilities and find Terminal app there. Change fileformat for screenshots in OSX 10.4.x and later. This look is the first clue that Apple is bringing ideas over from iOS to Mac OS X. To do this click on Finder icon and look for “Go” menu at the top. Open the Terminal application on your Mac. Type the name of your future screenshot storage folder(i my case I call it screenshots)ģ. Screenshots are saved onto your Desktop and timestamped. In order to rename it just do a single click on it and press Enter or Return key. ++3 captures the whole screen ++4 captures a custom rectangle (click and drag over the screen region you want to capture) ++4 then space captures a specific window (move the mouse cursor over the desired window, then click) Press esc to cancel. However you may choose the name that best fits you. Now I have the new “untitled folder” on my desktop. I have created new folder on my desktop.Ģ. Probably the easiest way to create new folder is well known command + shift+ N combination. Than choose “File” and click on “New folder”. To do this you just click on Finder and look for “File” menu at the top. Entire screen: To capture the entire screen, press Command-Shift-3. Heres a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X. A screen shot is an image of your computer desktop or an active window. What to do in this case? You may easily adjust where to save captured screenshots.ġ.First of all you should make new folder somewhere on your Mac. The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot. However if you use command + shift + 3(eventually 4) shortcut to often and do not want to trash the old files, one day you may find your desktop overwhelmed with screenshots. By default, screenshot is saved on your Desktop.