Mac 101: Capture sharp screenshots

crescendo · on July 5, 2008

My OS X screenshots with both cmd-shift-3 and cmd-shift-4 have always defaulted to PNG out of the box. I've been on board since Tiger and on two different machines.

rob · on July 5, 2008

Same here, and my screenshots have never been blurry, either. I have no idea where the author got the info that "by default the screen-shoot format is a made as a jpeg set to resolution 60".

feverishaaron · on July 5, 2008

yep. I would vote the main article down for being inaccurate if I could.

xlnt · on July 5, 2008

They used to default to PDFs. And it could have been jpegs before that, maybe back in 10.0, I don't know.

bprater · on July 5, 2008

I really love Skitch for taking screenshots.

You can go from snapping a shot to having it on the web and pasting a URL to a field in like 5 seconds. Like such:

http://skitch.com/bprater/xri2/hacker-news-mac-101-capture-s...

DougBTX · on July 5, 2008

My guess? The guy took a full-screen screenshot, opened it up in Preview in Auto Size mode, and was surprised that it looked fuzzy when shrunk to fit on his display.

thwarted · on July 5, 2008

Oddly, the sample screenshot of the terminal session on that page is a GIF.