macOS Screenshot Tricks to Impress Your Co-Workers

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ShareX

Windows-only recommendation so this is only somewhat related - but if you want a powerful, (mostly) well-thought-out, (seemingly) lightweight screenshot taker + editor on Windows, do have a look at ShareX[1]. It's completely free and you can tweak various workflows and map them to key combinations. I've had a "manual screenshot -> optional editing -> upload to imgur/save to clipboard" workflow bound to a mouse button (Logitech G600) for over 5 years and use it multiple times a day. I downloaded it through Steam but whatever other download options they have should auto-update just fine as well, I would guess. I only see this now but apparently the program is open-source. Never even knew that. [1] https://getsharex.com/.

#Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 271 social mentions

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CleanShot X

2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 77 social mentions

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Shottr

Y'all definitely need to check out Shottr too, it has built in annotation and OCR and doesn't cost anything unlike CleanShot (which admittedly, is great too!) https://shottr.cc/.

#Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions

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TextSniper

#OCR #Image Recognition #Data Extraction 33 social mentions

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Paparazzi!

Since we're all sharing here, another tool I often use is Paparazzi – you give it a URL and it creates a screenshot of the site (including scrolling as needed). A nice way to keep a visual snapshot of a site for future reference. Its on the App Store or at https://derailer.org/paparazzi/.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 6 social mentions

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Touch Bar Simulator

#Mac #Mac Tools #Virtual Keyboard 4 social mentions

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Tesseract

For linux (or GNOME more specifically) there is Frog[1]. It uses Tesseract OCR[2] under the hood. [1]: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tenderowl.frog [2]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.

#OCR #Image Recognition #PDF Editor 72 social mentions

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Zappy by Zapier

Another free screenshot tool from Zapier: https://zapier.com/zappy.

#Screenshots #GIFs #Productivity 3 social mentions

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ImageOptim

If you need to reduce the size of a screenshot it's often better to keep it as a PNG and reduce the number of colors. 256 colors nearly always carries all the information needed without blurring the edges or the text. Often 128 or 64 is fine. Don't use dithering - it harms the compression ratio, so you may as well use a few more colors instead. Often just applying lossless PNG optimisations using a tool like https://imageoptim.com/mac will sometimes save a large percentage, although it can take a minute or so for the tool to finish.

#Image Optimisation #Image Editing #Image Effects 53 social mentions