If you have a Mac, you’ve probably noticed that every time you take a screenshot of an opened window, it will add a nice drop shadow to this screenshot. Most of them are from iOS devices, but from time to time, we do post screenshots from a Mac app or utility.

The changes you have made do not make any effect until you restart your Mac or use additional Terminal action “ kill SystemUIServer” Make sure you do one or another way and your default image format will be changed.We take screenshots all the time to illustrate our posts here at iDB.

And, for PDF, type “ defaults write type pdf”.

If you want PNG to be your your default image file format, type “ defaults write type png”.

To change it to GIF, write “ defaults write type gif”.

For TIFF, type “ defaults write type tiff”.

To change the default format to JPEG, type the following text in Terminal “ defaults write type jpg”.

Go to Applications, open Utilities, and double– tap the Terminal.

Here is how to set a default image format using Terminal. So, you have a wide variety of options here. Macs support most of the popular image formats out there like JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and PDF.

However, you can quickly change that in whatever supported format you want, using Terminal.

The default and most used image format on Macs is usually PNG. Lastly, you can use the Preview app to make any changes to your screenshots like cropping, resizing, etc. However, you also have JPEG and PNG as variants when saving the image. By default, Grab saves all the images in TIFF format. Here you can see your image’s view depth and size. This also have a dedicated keyboard shortcut – Command+1. People usually use Timed Screen to take pictures of their Mac’s menu and menu options.Īfter taking the screenshot, you can see information about it by clicking Edit on Mac’s menu bar and choosing Inspector. You have enough time to start any action and open any window you want to capture. Now click Start Timer and Grab will take a screenshot of the entire screen 10 seconds later. Click on Capture on Mac’s menu bar and choose Timed Screen or use the keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+Z. It allows you to take a screenshot after a short period of time (10 seconds), and here is how to use it.

This is by far the best feature that Grab offers.

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