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kevs · Jan 20, 2006, 02:15 PM

these pngs are huge and bloated, what is best way to get screenshots to be small and e mail friendly jpegs? thanks.

10.4.4

tripletaker · Jan 20, 2006, 03:10 PM

1 way: Save them with Photoshop and lower the quality as a JPEG.

Apfhex · Jan 20, 2006, 03:14 PM

PNG's are a good thing. ;p But yeah, if you don't have Photoshop you can just use Preview to export them as JPEG's. (is this really a OS X question?)

cybergoober · Jan 20, 2006, 03:41 PM

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format

image_format can be jpg, pdf, gif or png

Then log out and log back in.

pendragon · Jan 20, 2006, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by kevs

these pngs are huge and bloated, what is best way to get screenshots to be small and e mail friendly jpegs? thanks.10.4.4

You might try iResize, Freeware. http://www.daniele.ch/downloads.html

Can easily resize .jpeg, .pict, .tiff and .psd

Works great for me, easy to use, and the price is right.

Judge_Fire · Jan 20, 2006, 07:23 PM

You might want to grab your screenshots using Preview (File:Grab) and then, as suggested, saving them as JPGs. All neatly in one app. Setting the default, as suggested above is even nicer.

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megasad · Jan 20, 2006, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by cybergoober

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format

image_format can be jpg, pdf, gif or png

Then log out and log back in.

And TinkerTool will let you do that too.

fisherKing · Jan 20, 2006, 08:47 PM

you can also check versiontracker...
onyx, shotchoice...all freebies, can do this (onyx does a lot more...)

pendragon · Jan 20, 2006, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by megasad

And TinkerTool will let you do that too.

While TinkerTool can save images in different formats, it can't resize them.

kevs · Jan 20, 2006, 11:32 PM

thanks, did not know preview does a grab. only thing, is that its saving them as tiffs, and I don't see anything in preferences to change that.

fisherKing · Jan 20, 2006, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by kevs

thanks, did not know preview does a grab. only thing, is that its saving them as tiffs, and I don't see anything in preferences to change that.

shotchoice

gives u easy access to change screenshot type; do a standard command shift 4 (or 3) and it be the format you choose...

CaptainHaddock · 10:34 AM

JPEGs suck.

They introduce all kinds of image noise and artifacts.

SMacTech · Jan 21, 2006, 10:42 AM

I use ImageWell which works perfectly for screen shots and you can annotate them as well. Drop a png in ImageWell and it is converted to a jpg and you can just drag the image to mail.app!