Mac image question?
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HongerVenture
Adventurer
I'm not clear on what you are trying to do... crop an image out of a screenshot? Or are you trying to grab an image off a website?
Desertdude
Expedition Leader
Do your screen shot - then open that in Preview then File/Grab/Selection - follow the dialog
Save as (desired file format)
Save as (desired file format)
HongerVenture
Adventurer
Desertdude said:
Yeah... what he said.
I simply love how powerful an application as simple as Preview is on the Mac. It can view everything... and do so many nice little editing tweaks without having to open iPhoto or Photoshop. Heck, did you know you can combine and annotate PDF's in Preview now?
Anyway... it is nice that so many in this community are also part of the Mac community.
Joel
77blazerchalet
Former Chalet owner
Uh oh. I must have an antique version of Preview, as seen in the pic below. What I've done for the longest time is hit the command key-shift key-4 key and marquee just the area of the screen I wanted instead of a full screen capture. But that generates a PDF pic which I have to open in Preview, then export as a jpeg to my desktop, in order to open it in my CorelDRAW so I can resize it smaller, and finally export it as a lower dpi jpeg back to the desktop........... pant, pant....
Newer Preview = less hoops to jump through?
Newer Preview = less hoops to jump through?
Wagontrain
New member
77blazerchalet said:
Yes
There is an app in the Utilities folder: Finder/Go/Utilities/Grab
It's been included in OSX since at least 10.3
WT
77blazerchalet
Former Chalet owner
Ya learn something everyday... they're TIFF files, though. Probably doesn't make any difference for little screen captures, but I still have to drop them into CorelDRAW to convert them to JPEGs since TIFFs aren't usable to plop them into these posts.....?
77blazerchalet
Former Chalet owner
......wait... I can answer my own question, the portion of the screen I want to capture can be selected in the Grab, saved to my desktop, opened in Preview, and exported as a JPEG back to the desktop. That chops two 'hoops' out of what I was doing before, the conversion from PDF to JPEG, and opening Corel altogether.