Comments on: Change the Screen Shot Capture File Format in Mac OS X

By: OSXDaily

OSXDaily — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:05:55 +0000

It definitely works. Everything we publish we test and review.

By: plimplam

plimplam — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 02:12:24 +0000

really helpful!thank you so much!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:02:53 +0000

If you are using Preview, you can use the “Export” option.

Otherwise, you can re-enable the “Save As” menu option in OS X Mountain Lion as described here: http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/27/enable-save-as-os-x-mountain-lion/

By: Gaynor

Gaynor — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:24:29 +0000

I’ve tried various tips but still can’t find a way of converting a screenshot into a JPG in Mountain Lion. Worked fine in Snow Leopard but now the ‘Save as’ button has gone, there’s no obvious way to do it.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:08:35 +0000

This does not work for me in Mountain Lion. Anyone know of a way to make it work in Mountain Lion or am I the only one unable to change it? Screenshots come out as .tiff files even after doing the terminal command to change them to .jpg.
Thanks,
Dave

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:46:49 +0000

Nope. It doesn’t work here either.
Tried as sudo too, no change, still saves as TIFF

By: jt

jt — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:05:34 +0000

If there were only a way to do this in iOS. I don’t like the huge filesize of PNG files. Maybe I’ve been around for so long that I prefer the compressed picture formats but given the actual size of an iOS device such as an iPhone or iPod touch, .jpg files are more than sufficient to use as the default picture filetype for screenshots.

This is a problem when I post screenshots in Twitter and I look at the size of a PNG file and it disturbs me the size when and if I export the file to .jpg, it’s at least have the file size.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:12:22 +0000

It works perfectly for me in OS X Lion. You need to use killall SystemUIServer at the end maybe you forgot to do so.

By: Allison

Allison — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 04:01:49 +0000

Worked beautifully! Thank you so much! I was actually really upset that when I updated to Lion OSX,all of my screenshots were saved at png files, and the only way I could save them as jpg extensions was to literally duplicate the screenshot in preview (because Lion got rid of the “save as” option =/), and then save the copy as a jpg and delete the original. Such an unnecessary hassle. Glad I stumbled upon this!

By: moz

moz — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:14:25 +0000

alternatively, it means you are doing something wrong. if you don’t kill SystemUIServer the changes do not take effect.

i set mine to jpg a long time ago, png is too heavy and offers no advantages. it works fine.

By: Polarbreeze

Polarbreeze — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:04:08 +0000

This advice appears in numerous places on the web. Unfortunately, it does not work. I think people just copy other people’s advice without checking whether it actually works or not.