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Know a good screen capturing tool for Mac OS X ?
Currently I take screen captures using Shift-Cmd-4, where the captures appear as .png on my desktop. Issue: I'm always searching on my desktop for the capture I just made... it makes a mess on my desktop, it places the capture anywhere, and when I have e.g. captures Picture-1.png through Picture-10.png, and I delete Picture-3.png, then the next capture will be Picture-3.png, which drives me nuts; the next capture name should be Picture-11.png, etc.
What I'm looking for:
- Something that starts and works as simple as Shift-Cmd-4, always on demand (i.e., I get a cross hair, and select exactly the screen area I want to capture)
- It saves the captures to a special folder, as .png
- Every capture is automatically named, preferably with a date in it's name (e.g. Picture-20090122-001.png)
Anybody know of such a tool?? I can't seem to find one.
What I'm looking for:
- Something that starts and works as simple as Shift-Cmd-4, always on demand (i.e., I get a cross hair, and select exactly the screen area I want to capture)
- It saves the captures to a special folder, as .png
- Every capture is automatically named, preferably with a date in it's name (e.g. Picture-20090122-001.png)
Anybody know of such a tool?? I can't seem to find one.
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Here's a whole bunch of screen shot tools AND other combinations that are built in besides Shift-Cmd-4.
And here's an article (for 10.4, but should work for 10.5) for changing the file format:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050627224051361
By the way, here are the built in screen shot commands:
Command+Shift+3 - Capture entire screen and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+3 Capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard
Command+Shift+4 Capture dragged area and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+4 - Capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard
Command+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard
And here's an article (for 10.4, but should work for 10.5) for changing the file format:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050627224051361
By the way, here are the built in screen shot commands:
Command+Shift+3 - Capture entire screen and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+3 Capture entire screen and copy to the clipboard
Command+Shift+4 Capture dragged area and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+4 - Capture dragged area and copy to the clipboard
Command+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and save as a file
Command+Control+Shift+4 then Space bar - Capture a window, menu, desktop icon, or the menu bar and copy to the clipboard
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