Comments on: Capture & Save Screen Shots with Preview in Mac OS X Lion

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:36:51 +0000

You can use the keyboard shortcuts going into the clipboard (Command-Control-Shift-3, Command-Control-Shift-4), open Preview and hit Command-N. Two steps more, but then again, quite often, I instead directly paste into an E-Mail. No files involved.

By: clasqm

clasqm — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:59:45 +0000

If you have multiple monitors connected it will take a screenshot of each one.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:20:06 +0000

Good catch, updated.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:19:50 +0000

This opens the screenshot automatically into Preview because it is taken in there, where the system screen shot just stores the file on the desktop.

By: Makeup

Makeup — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:07:48 +0000

This is not true. This feature already exists in Preview of Snow Leopard!

By: Harry F.

Harry F. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:03:28 +0000

What would be the difference between this, and using the system screen shot method and changing the ‘open with’ parameter?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:02:55 +0000

I kind of wish the keyboard shortcuts just did this into Preview by themselves, how often do you really just want a file instead of immediate action?