I just received a proof-reading assignment for a very important project, due tomorrow. Being able to screenshot with messages and suggestions strategically placed was the best way to communicate to the Design and Engineering team my suggestions. Your tutorial was easy to understand and I LOVE YOU! Thank you immensely.
Hi Gary. Thank you once again for a video that showed me things I never knew about my Mac, even though I thought I "knew" everything. Here is an addition to this particular tutorial: for some reason, the circle shape comes down as an which you may not want. If the oval shape is selected (it will have blue dots all around it) then holding the Shift key while you move one of the corner blue dots will force it into a perfect circle. Likewise, with the line or arrow tool if you grab one end of the line or arrow (when selected) and holding the Shift key down, it will force it to perfectly vertical, horizontal or 45°. I hope this helps. Thank you again for your wonderful videos!
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
When you say “delete” I assume you mean in the right upper corner of the screenshot. Please tell me which “delete” you hit (which window). It might give us a clue as to where to look other than recently deleted. Let me know.
@@micahklein4015 I took a screenshot and immediately touched the garbage can (delete) and the screenshot goes away and I don’t see where it might be but totally gone, unlike deleting a photo, which goes to “recently deleted” and would be salvageable. Unless you made the screenshot some time ago and deleted it “today”. In that case maybe you can retrieve it in iCloud backup (iOS like iPhone or ipad) or Time Machine backups (Mac OS). Let me know if you made the screenshot some time ago and I could maybe explore further.
Perfect tutorial as always. Covers everything. i would also like to add a little tip. If you screenshot a window, you'll see a black frame around the image. To avoid that, before you hit the return key to take the screenshot, hold down the option key
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Incredible! I learned so much. The magnifying glass made me say "Oh my god." I had no idea. You have a lifetime subscriber in me. Wish I learned this in school but happy to have found you lol.
Thanks for this tutorial. Very useful, as I have found take a screenshot easy enough but have found many of the options and editing tools not very intuitive. Didn't even realize there was a Command-Shift-5 option available with additional editing and screenshot options not available elsewhere, such as time.
Gary, all your videos are informative but this one is extra useful for Mac users. I will be watching it several times to get all the tips & tricks. Thanks.
I take lots of screenshots to paste on chats. I don't want to save every screenshot, is there a way to take the screenshot, edit it, copy it and paste it, and the discarding? Thanks for the video BTW
Yes. Use Shift+Command+5 and set the options to save to a location (Desktop, for example) and turn on Show Floating Thumbnail. Then take a screenshot using any of the keyboard shortcuts and click on the floating thumbnail. Mark up the screenshot. Click on the background of the screenshot (so nothing is selected -- important!) and then Command+c to copy the whole thing. Then click the trash icon to dismiss without saving. Now Command+v to paste the screenshot with markup into whatever you are doing.
@@macmost Appreciate your response and this is a really useful thing to do for productivity on MAC. I tried your suggestion and it did not work for me, for some reason(s). I did however find a workaround that actually worked for me. Use Shift+Command+5, go to Options, and select Clipboard. Now, take a screenshot using any of the keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift+Command+4. Notice the floating thumbnail will no longer show, because the screenshot is placed onto the clipboard, ready to be pasted. Then, paste it in any app you are working with. One drawback of this method is that MAC does not give me a chance to markup the screenshot before pasting it to my app. Hope this helps.
Hi Gary. Thanks for the helpful video. I am new on Mac, I just switched on it from W10. I have a question which I did not find answer anywhere. I am using snapshots a lot with mac shortcuts, but I am missing functionallity to have option-prompt after taking snapshot to name every single one before saving it. I only found the option to. make a default name for all snapshots.
In the screenshot options, set the destination to Preview (or an app of your choice). Then you take a screenshot and it opens it immediately in Preview. Now a quick Command+s and you can name it and save it anywhere.
Great tips! I'm new to Mac as this is what was issued by my employer. I'm trying to figure out how to take a screenshot, do the mark ups, then immediately copy the image without saving the file. Sometimes I need to do this to quickly send in a messaging app or other tool that doesn't appear in the 'share' menu. In the windows snipping tool its very easy to mark up then copy the image without saving it. Is there a way to do this on Mac?
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
really useful; thanks! one additional thing that took me a while to find: if you take a window shot, you'll find it adds a drop shadow. if you don't want that, hold the Option key as you capture. also: it seems like pressing return to capture for a selection has stopped working;
Hi Gary, is there a way where I can apply a text or watermark already created in one screenshot to all of the next ones? without having to take one by one? i know there's bulk tools and apps but is easier for me to list inventory for my website one by one with the screenshot and watermark included while creating a listing than going back to photos and add it to them
The best way to do that is as a function off your website content management software. Not sure what you use, but many allow you to do this. Otherwise, a graphics tool or a Shortcut is next best. Like: th-cam.com/video/VyEGoKNiFkk/w-d-xo.html
This video was very useful. Usually I am intimidated with markup and am concerned about making mistakes I cannot change. I need to remember to use "revert", and that will start the process over. I really am glad you put this video together. Always learning something 👨🏻🏫
Wow! You're incredibly good! I must have missed what I'm looking for. Trying to highlight a simple phrase on a screenshot of text. I ended up underlining, but there must be a way to highlight. If you explained this in video could you give me timestamp, please?
Mac screenshot tool is so complicated to use, and I'm a Mac loyalist. The "copy" missing from it is a huge, intentional oversight. Windows screenshot tool is so simple to take a picture, make some scribbles, then decide to copy or save it. I can't believe something on Windows is easier than on Mac, but in this case, it 100 times true.
If you want to save it, then the method I show is exactly what you want: screenshot, scribble, save. If you want to copy it, set Save To to "Clipboard" or select an area and Command+C. Right to clipboard. If you want to do screenshot-markup-clipboard, one way is to set the Save To to "Preview" and then take a screenshot, it opens in Preview. Then you can markup, select all, copy and close.
@@macmost Its too many keystrokes. And if your last screenshot was save instead of save to clipboard, the next will revert to it. On windows, you take the screenshot, then you can scribble, and a huge copy/save button is visible. I take screenshots all day at my dayjob using Windows, annotate them, and then paste into powerpoint or one note. When I come home on the mac and try to do the same, I want to smash the computer. I'm about to spend $40 on a screenshot tool because the built in one is so cumbersome. I appreciate you video, however.
@@macmost Here is another caveat: when on my M1 Air, if I select save so the icon of the picture floats on the bottom right of the screen, there is both the sketch tool and the draw tool. However on my M1 Ultra, there is only the sketch tool. Its little inconsistencies like this that make this screenshot tool so cumbersome. Another one is the icons at the top are so tiny, and they all look so similar. You can barely even tell when one is selected. This has been an issue going back nearly 20 years, staring in the Preview application, and now extending to the screenshot application. Apple's UX dept completely missed the boat on this user interface, IMO. Another caveat, to do the command C to get the picture to copy/paste into a ppt document, your mouse has to be in a specific place in the picture for it to copy. The whole thing is just bad.
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Thanks so much for this! I'm new to the Mac world, and have been looking for a good screenshot app like the one I use in Linux/Gnome because I didn't know a good one was built in.
really excellent work. everything explained clearly and succinctly. again and again, this channel is THE best place for mac information on the internet.
Hi Gary! Very informative! Thanks for making the video. Kindly help me with one doubt with respect to Time Machine. Why it is not automatically deleting the old backups to do new backup. What to do to resolve? Also guide to how to delete old backups manually? Thanks in advance🙏
Time Machine will keep around old versions of files as long as there is space to do so. It will also keep around at least one version of every file. So if you have run out of space, then your Time Machine drive is too small for the task and it is time to get a new one.
@@macmost Thanks for the guidance. The Time machine external backup harddrive is 5TB and the backup to be do is around 2.3 TB of 5TB of files from another external hard drive plus mac internal 128 GB storage. All was working fine and suddenly it is not back uping. Plz guide me with this. Thanks in advance.
hi Gary, as all your videos, your video is so informative, deep and useful. Eventhought knowing a subject like any long time mac user, there is ALWAYS something to learn from you. Impressive, this represents certainly a lot of work for you, so ... Thanks ...
Does anyone know why the "draw" option (squiggly line on the left) doesn't work for my screen shots? I can see it there, but it doesn't do anything when I click it. The other options all work! Thanks.
Hi Gari, You just saved me a ton of work over the next year. Can't say how thankful I am! I'm working on a project that totally depends on annotated screenshots and this will simplify my work flow considerably. Still there's one more thing I would like: is there a way to tune the graying-out tool to a lesser density?
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
My goal is to take a screenshot, draw a circle on it to outline something important, then paste into something. Is there a way to do this to keep it all in the Clipboard? I'm not using mail, but pasting into Chrome instead (to attach in Atlassian Jira - for my support tickets). I know I can capture it in the Clipboard, but then I can't annotate it. Snagit for Mac allows you to copy to clipboard after annotating, and was hoping Mac had the same.
If you go to a site and then given the Reader View, how can I do a full complete screen shot of that. I can print it to PDF which is one option but will screen shot of a JPG work?
Yes. Set it to open the floating thumbnail and save to a file location, like Documents. Click on the floating thumbnail to enter markup. Then when done, use Command+c to copy and then click the trash to not save the file and exit. Then paste into whatever it is you are doing. Test it to see how it works.
@@macmost Thank you so very much! That just saved me a ton of time down the road. Just what I was looking for. Love your channel and I appreciate that you actually answered my question. That is awesome!
Hi, I noticed in your tutorial you skipped over "Highlight Selection". When I try to click this, nothing happens. Would you happen to know why? Coming from a Windows computer, I'm so used to clicking the highlight button and it just working as expected.
That button does nothing for screenshots because they are pixels, not text. If you were using markup tools in another context, with say a PDF file, then you could select and highlight text in the PDF.
how do i enter the scresnhot with 'markup' already selected? everytime i take a screenshot i have to click the markup tools. before ventura, it would save my last settings.
My screenshot menu bar only has 1 sketch icon at the left-hand side. And when I select the line thickness option, they appear square, not curved like a brushstroke like yours does. I'm on 12.0.1
A great tutorial that show-cases the power and flexibility of this tool - there's more to Mac screenshots than meets the eye! :) Thanks, Gary! PS: One thing that I dislike about the built-in Mac screenshot is that you have to save it to file. I would like to *annotate* a screenshot and copy the final result directly to my clipboard - without saving a file. But I don't see any way to do that...
Hey, I'm in the Preview on my Mac but I don't know how to highlight text on a screenshot. I'm able to get a box around it but it doesn't remain after I click on the screenshot nowhere in particular.
The screenshots should be pixel-perfect. What are you doing to take a screenshot? Have you changed anything like forcing it to save as jpeg files instead?
Yes. Take the screenshot. Click the thumbnail to mark it up. Add things like text or arrows, etc. Command+c to copy. Click the trash icon to throw it away. Then it is in your clipboard, ready to paste. Try it and see.
Any ideas how we can free draw with red color? It seems that it gives you the option to draw only in black colour, which I think is a huge bug and failure.
Does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Sorry, I know this is old, but what to do if none of my screenshot shortcuts are working? I have them selected with a checkmark in the keyboard shortcut settings, but nothing happens and I can't figure out why. So frustrated that mine does not seem to do this simple, fundamental task!!!
Do other keyboard shortcuts work? Do you have anything installed that could be overriding those shortcuts? Try it in Safe Mode and see if it works then.
Been trying to do this for months, but still does not work I click on the mark-up tools but I still can't draw on the snapshot. I jsut get 4 corner dots that do nothing. Anyone else figure that out?
Nice tutorial, thanks. I still find that Windows native Snipping Tool , then pasting into MS Paint, is so much more intuitive, faster, easier, fewer steps, more feature rich... than how Mac handles this. I would think Trillion Dollar Apple would provider better built-in options for simple snipping and annotating, without having to memorized yet more keyboard combos and all of these... steps.
You could do that on Mac too if you don't like this method for some reason. You can use a keyboard shortcut to "snip" the whole screen or an area and it goes right to the clipboard. Then paste into any image editing app you want.
@@macmost when you click on the little screenshot that shows up in the bottom right corner of the screen to add annotations, you now have to click on the pencil icon and then click on the line weight icon to start drawing. Previously you just started drawing. Then after drawing on a screenshot you cmd + c or right click copy and paste the image only to not have the annotations and just the original image. I think I just figured it out. If you draw on an image, you need to then click on the top toolbar area, then click back to the image and copy paste it. I don’t remember ever having to do any of the above actions before. It “just worked”.
Hi Gary, your videos are wonderful sources of knowledge. I like your developed app very much. Do you mind making a video about screen annotation on Mac and advice where to find a simple tool like in video th-cam.com/video/W-iJjmg4xUs/w-d-xo.html , pls navigate to time stamp 1:29 for the 3 simple buttons tool. Thank you so much my friend!
I don't know what you are talking about. The video you linked to is a news report of some kind and I don't see anything at that time that relates to screen annotation.
Not sure how to answer that question. It isn't hard. Just click the markup tools button, click the shape tools button and choose arrow. The arrow appears. Now position as you like.
@@macmost Thank you for replying. I know it is user error. I don't even see the markup tools or shape button tools. With mac's typical user friendly methodology Im just surprised that those feature do not automatically populate - seems like they would. But alas that is why I am not a tech person. Again thank you for your reply and the video.
Mate, apart from the fact there's no 'Markup' in here (you seem to misunderstand what that is), this stuff is so basic I think anyone who buys a Mac is probably well capable of working this out within a couple of minutes.
Love your tutorials! So simple yet comprehensive, thank you for your work! I wanted to know if there is a way to use Preview to create a box around the text, with the text being in-between the box as opposed to inside it? This is a bit complicated to explain, so here's a reference: drive.google.com/file/d/1N7NGK8qkz-TUKa_95Q3ULs_2Xxb8uKx2/view?usp=sharing If yes, I'd love to know how! Thanks again!
I'm not sure which part of that example you are trying to create, but you can do it all in Preview if you really try. But it would be easier to use a graphics app or Pages or something. Using Preview for precise document creation it is probably the wrong tool for that.
Gary - you are a wizard. The timer option is brilliant to enable us to do a screenshot with the option key held down. Thank you sooo much.
I just received a proof-reading assignment for a very important project, due tomorrow. Being able to screenshot with messages and suggestions strategically placed was the best way to communicate to the Design and Engineering team my suggestions. Your tutorial was easy to understand and I LOVE YOU! Thank you immensely.
Gary -- At least 50% of the time I do a search on a Mac issue, your videos pop up. Thank you for the neverending help and clear, concise explanations!
Thanks for explaining so nicely.
WOW!!!!!!!! So much I didn't know!! Love the 5 sec timer. I have needed that so many times!! Thanks, Gary... you rock!!!
Cheers Gary, another Great tutorial, which contains info not previously known.
4:13: saved me much time instead of doing it in Photoshop! Eternal thanks Gary, your video's are fantastic!
Hi Gary. Thank you once again for a video that showed me things I never knew about my Mac, even though I thought I "knew" everything. Here is an addition to this particular tutorial: for some reason, the circle shape comes down as an which you may not want. If the oval shape is selected (it will have blue dots all around it) then holding the Shift key while you move one of the corner blue dots will force it into a perfect circle. Likewise, with the line or arrow tool if you grab one end of the line or arrow (when selected) and holding the Shift key down, it will force it to perfectly vertical, horizontal or 45°. I hope this helps. Thank you again for your wonderful videos!
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
When you say “delete” I assume you mean in the right upper corner of the screenshot. Please tell me which “delete” you hit (which window). It might give us a clue as to where to look other than recently deleted. Let me know.
@@howardlevinger4571 yeah that’s what I meant
@@micahklein4015 I took a screenshot and immediately touched the garbage can (delete) and the screenshot goes away and I don’t see where it might be but totally gone, unlike deleting a photo, which goes to “recently deleted” and would be salvageable. Unless you made the screenshot some time ago and deleted it “today”. In that case maybe you can retrieve it in iCloud backup (iOS like iPhone or ipad) or Time Machine backups (Mac OS). Let me know if you made the screenshot some time ago and I could maybe explore further.
@@howardlevinger4571 I took it yesterday I think. No later than the day before that
Perfect tutorial as always. Covers everything. i would also like to add a little tip. If you screenshot a window, you'll see a black frame around the image. To avoid that, before you hit the return key to take the screenshot, hold down the option key
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Incredible! I learned so much. The magnifying glass made me say "Oh my god." I had no idea. You have a lifetime subscriber in me. Wish I learned this in school but happy to have found you lol.
Is there an option to copy the marked up screenshot instead of saving it in Mac?
I suppose you could share, select Preview, then select all and copy, then close the document without saving.
@@macmost Thank you 😊❣️. It works. ✌🏾
Thank you! Very helpful-as always.
Thanks Gary...I always find your videos easy to understand.
Thanks for this tutorial. Very useful, as I have found take a screenshot easy enough but have found many of the options and editing tools not very intuitive. Didn't even realize there was a Command-Shift-5 option available with additional editing and screenshot options not available elsewhere, such as time.
You make my day every time I watch your videos Gary. I only knew a portion of this video. So fun! thanks!
Gary, all your videos are informative but this one is extra useful for Mac users. I will be watching it several times to get all the tips & tricks. Thanks.
Excellent! I use screen captures all the time. This video was invaluable for me. Thank you very much, Gary!
I take lots of screenshots to paste on chats. I don't want to save every screenshot, is there a way to take the screenshot, edit it, copy it and paste it, and the discarding? Thanks for the video BTW
Yes. Use Shift+Command+5 and set the options to save to a location (Desktop, for example) and turn on Show Floating Thumbnail. Then take a screenshot using any of the keyboard shortcuts and click on the floating thumbnail. Mark up the screenshot. Click on the background of the screenshot (so nothing is selected -- important!) and then Command+c to copy the whole thing. Then click the trash icon to dismiss without saving. Now Command+v to paste the screenshot with markup into whatever you are doing.
@@macmost Appreciate your response and this is a really useful thing to do for productivity on MAC. I tried your suggestion and it did not work for me, for some reason(s). I did however find a workaround that actually worked for me. Use Shift+Command+5, go to Options, and select Clipboard. Now, take a screenshot using any of the keyboard shortcuts, such as Shift+Command+4. Notice the floating thumbnail will no longer show, because the screenshot is placed onto the clipboard, ready to be pasted. Then, paste it in any app you are working with. One drawback of this method is that MAC does not give me a chance to markup the screenshot before pasting it to my app. Hope this helps.
Hi Gary. Thanks for the helpful video. I am new on Mac, I just switched on it from W10. I have a question which I did not find answer anywhere. I am using snapshots a lot with mac shortcuts, but I am missing functionallity to have option-prompt after taking snapshot to name every single one before saving it. I only found the option to. make a default name for all snapshots.
In the screenshot options, set the destination to Preview (or an app of your choice). Then you take a screenshot and it opens it immediately in Preview. Now a quick Command+s and you can name it and save it anywhere.
Gary another excellent video and so useful yes. Is there anything you don't know about a computer, simply amazing. Thanks again.
You make everything look so easy.
Super video! Never knew about some of these features. Thanks for sharing!
Great tips! I'm new to Mac as this is what was issued by my employer. I'm trying to figure out how to take a screenshot, do the mark ups, then immediately copy the image without saving the file. Sometimes I need to do this to quickly send in a messaging app or other tool that doesn't appear in the 'share' menu. In the windows snipping tool its very easy to mark up then copy the image without saving it. Is there a way to do this on Mac?
I've been using Macs for 20 years, and the Windows screenshare tool is 100 times simpler, and has the copy button. Its amazing the Mac does not.
Hi Gary, Thank you for the video helped me a lot. If there is a way can capture the entire window scroll down from top to bottom?
No, not with this tool. Some third-party apps have that built in (like Firefox) and some third-party screen capture apps will do it or any app window.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! It was very helpful!
This is so much quicker than firing up Photoshop for something as simple as marking up an image. Thanks, Gary!
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Super useful tips. Had not realised what was possible with capture!
Seems to be you've mastered macos.
Apple should hire you as the head of the tutorial team😂
Thanks Gary, great video!
I wish there was an easy way to highlight a sentence for example.
Just use a line to underline it? Or a box? Or that mask tool I show if it is only one sentence.
Another useful video. Thanks.
Thank you Gary! Is there an easy way to take a screenshot of a full webpage in Safari?
Not really. See th-cam.com/video/fEXxnGxcj6I/w-d-xo.html
Very useful video. Many thanks.
really useful; thanks!
one additional thing that took me a while to find: if you take a window shot, you'll find it adds a drop shadow. if you don't want that, hold the Option key as you capture.
also: it seems like pressing return to capture for a selection has stopped working;
Hi Gary, is there a way where I can apply a text or watermark already created in one screenshot to all of the next ones? without having to take one by one? i know there's bulk tools and apps but is easier for me to list inventory for my website one by one with the screenshot and watermark included while creating a listing than going back to photos and add it to them
The best way to do that is as a function off your website content management software. Not sure what you use, but many allow you to do this. Otherwise, a graphics tool or a Shortcut is next best. Like: th-cam.com/video/VyEGoKNiFkk/w-d-xo.html
I'm new to Mac... this guy is awesome!
Thank you. This is a very helpful video!
Muchas gracias Gary.
Thank you so much Gary!!!
This video was very useful. Usually I am intimidated with markup and am concerned about making mistakes I cannot change. I need to remember to use "revert", and that will start the process over. I really am glad you put this video together. Always learning something 👨🏻🏫
Awesome! Thanks for this!
I love this information - - - but is there any way to make Shift-CMMD-5 work in High Sierra 10.13?
No. That whole interface simply didn't exist then.
Wow! You're incredibly good! I must have missed what I'm looking for. Trying to highlight a simple phrase on a screenshot of text. I ended up underlining, but there must be a way to highlight. If you explained this in video could you give me timestamp, please?
You can try placing a solid box over it with the color set to nan opacity of 50%.
Thanks for the vid. Very informative!
I find it quicker to use Shift-Command-4 and then select the area I want to capture. Thanks for the video.
Hi Gary, thanks. I have learned so much from these videos - thanks!
Man, all your videos are so good! Very interesting, informative, helpfully and so good done! Thanks a lot to you, you've made my life much more easy
Mac screenshot tool is so complicated to use, and I'm a Mac loyalist. The "copy" missing from it is a huge, intentional oversight. Windows screenshot tool is so simple to take a picture, make some scribbles, then decide to copy or save it. I can't believe something on Windows is easier than on Mac, but in this case, it 100 times true.
If you want to save it, then the method I show is exactly what you want: screenshot, scribble, save. If you want to copy it, set Save To to "Clipboard" or select an area and Command+C. Right to clipboard. If you want to do screenshot-markup-clipboard, one way is to set the Save To to "Preview" and then take a screenshot, it opens in Preview. Then you can markup, select all, copy and close.
@@macmost Its too many keystrokes. And if your last screenshot was save instead of save to clipboard, the next will revert to it. On windows, you take the screenshot, then you can scribble, and a huge copy/save button is visible. I take screenshots all day at my dayjob using Windows, annotate them, and then paste into powerpoint or one note. When I come home on the mac and try to do the same, I want to smash the computer. I'm about to spend $40 on a screenshot tool because the built in one is so cumbersome. I appreciate you video, however.
@@macmost Here is another caveat: when on my M1 Air, if I select save so the icon of the picture floats on the bottom right of the screen, there is both the sketch tool and the draw tool. However on my M1 Ultra, there is only the sketch tool. Its little inconsistencies like this that make this screenshot tool so cumbersome. Another one is the icons at the top are so tiny, and they all look so similar. You can barely even tell when one is selected. This has been an issue going back nearly 20 years, staring in the Preview application, and now extending to the screenshot application. Apple's UX dept completely missed the boat on this user interface, IMO. Another caveat, to do the command C to get the picture to copy/paste into a ppt document, your mouse has to be in a specific place in the picture for it to copy. The whole thing is just bad.
super useful thanks!
Very informative. I use screen capture frequently but now have a better understanding of the markup options & techniques. Thanks Gary.
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
Thanks so much for this! I'm new to the Mac world, and have been looking for a good screenshot app like the one I use in Linux/Gnome because I didn't know a good one was built in.
really excellent work. everything explained clearly and succinctly. again and again, this channel is THE best place for mac information on the internet.
Finally! A way to include the Drop Down Menu in a screenshot! Very clearly explained and esy to understand. (I use this a lot!) THANK YOU! 😃
excellent video Gary. I had started using it but you gave me lots of detail which I might have potentially missed.
Really interesting & useful! Thx
Hi Gary!
Very informative! Thanks for making the video.
Kindly help me with one doubt with respect to Time Machine. Why it is not automatically deleting the old backups to do new backup. What to do to resolve?
Also guide to how to delete old backups manually?
Thanks in advance🙏
Time Machine will keep around old versions of files as long as there is space to do so. It will also keep around at least one version of every file. So if you have run out of space, then your Time Machine drive is too small for the task and it is time to get a new one.
@@macmost
Thanks for the guidance.
The Time machine external backup harddrive is 5TB and the backup to be do is around 2.3 TB of 5TB of files from another external hard drive plus mac internal 128 GB storage.
All was working fine and suddenly it is not back uping.
Plz guide me with this.
Thanks in advance.
@@karthickg2050 hard to advise without a firsthand look. But it sounds like it has been filled up over time with current and old files.
Hello Gary, Awesome content, just a quick question what program do you use to record your screen videos and add your webcam video??
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hi Gary, as all your videos, your video is so informative, deep and useful. Eventhought knowing a subject like any long time mac user, there is ALWAYS something to learn from you. Impressive, this represents certainly a lot of work for you, so ... Thanks ...
Does anyone know why the "draw" option (squiggly line on the left) doesn't work for my screen shots? I can see it there, but it doesn't do anything when I click it. The other options all work! Thanks.
How do you re-size screenshot to 1280X720 to use as thumbnail on you tube, THANK YOU
Open in Preview (or any image editing app), resize, and then export.
Hi Gari, You just saved me a ton of work over the next year. Can't say how thankful I am! I'm working on a project that totally depends on annotated screenshots and this will simplify my work flow considerably. Still there's one more thing I would like: is there a way to tune the graying-out tool to a lesser density?
Replying for interactions but does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
VERY helpful ....thanks
As always, thank you Brother
As always, a very useful tip, and one that was previously unknown to me. Thank you!
My goal is to take a screenshot, draw a circle on it to outline something important, then paste into something. Is there a way to do this to keep it all in the Clipboard? I'm not using mail, but pasting into Chrome instead (to attach in Atlassian Jira - for my support tickets). I know I can capture it in the Clipboard, but then I can't annotate it. Snagit for Mac allows you to copy to clipboard after annotating, and was hoping Mac had the same.
Yes. Just use Command+C to copy the screenshot with your annotation and then click the trash icon to dismiss it without saving.
If you go to a site and then given the Reader View, how can I do a full complete screen shot of that. I can print it to PDF which is one option but will screen shot of a JPG work?
A PDF would make more sense as it wouldn't be a huge "picture" of the screen, but the actual text.
Thanks man that helped
A very useful video tutorial today! Thanks for showing us how. Thank you, Gary! 👏👍🏻❤️
Is there a way to markup a preview and save to the clipboard instead saving a file? That’s what I want to do most of the time.
Yes. Set it to open the floating thumbnail and save to a file location, like Documents. Click on the floating thumbnail to enter markup. Then when done, use Command+c to copy and then click the trash to not save the file and exit. Then paste into whatever it is you are doing. Test it to see how it works.
@@macmost Thank you so very much! That just saved me a ton of time down the road. Just what I was looking for. Love your channel and I appreciate that you actually answered my question. That is awesome!
Hi, I noticed in your tutorial you skipped over "Highlight Selection". When I try to click this, nothing happens. Would you happen to know why? Coming from a Windows computer, I'm so used to clicking the highlight button and it just working as expected.
That button does nothing for screenshots because they are pixels, not text. If you were using markup tools in another context, with say a PDF file, then you could select and highlight text in the PDF.
how do i enter the scresnhot with 'markup' already selected? everytime i take a screenshot i have to click the markup tools. before ventura, it would save my last settings.
Not sure as I thought it always worked that way.
My screenshot menu bar only has 1 sketch icon at the left-hand side. And when I select the line thickness option, they appear square, not curved like a brushstroke like yours does. I'm on 12.0.1
I think you only get the second icon if you are using a tablet.
This tool is very powerful and useful.
A great tutorial that show-cases the power and flexibility of this tool - there's more to Mac screenshots than meets the eye! :) Thanks, Gary!
PS: One thing that I dislike about the built-in Mac screenshot is that you have to save it to file. I would like to *annotate* a screenshot and copy the final result directly to my clipboard - without saving a file. But I don't see any way to do that...
You can do exactly that. Instead of clicking Done, just Command+C. Then click the Trash icon instead.
@@macmost - Ah, thanks for that. I was using Right-click > Copy image, which ignores the annotations...
is there a way to keep the sceenshot stay in the bottom corner for longer?
No, that's not customizable.
Hey, I'm in the Preview on my Mac but I don't know how to highlight text on a screenshot. I'm able to get a box around it but it doesn't remain after I click on the screenshot nowhere in particular.
Use the rectangle drawing tool since it is an image and not a PDF.
@@macmost Thank you. I got it to work. You're always very helpful. Appreciate it.
need a Ventura version of this. preview is quite different now.
It hasn't change that much. Where are you getting stuck?
is there a way to resize the text box?
Yes. Drag the dots to the left and right side of any text box you create.
How can I get clearer non-blurry screenshots on Mac Studio 02???
The screenshots should be pixel-perfect. What are you doing to take a screenshot? Have you changed anything like forcing it to save as jpeg files instead?
@@macmost Thanx for the speed-of-light reply! Exceeded my expectations!
Can I do the comments or annotate without saving in screenshot, or by using the clipboard ? @macmostvideo
Yes. Take the screenshot. Click the thumbnail to mark it up. Add things like text or arrows, etc. Command+c to copy. Click the trash icon to throw it away. Then it is in your clipboard, ready to paste. Try it and see.
Any ideas how we can free draw with red color?
It seems that it gives you the option to draw only in black colour, which I think is a huge bug and failure.
You can use any color you want. Just change the line/border color in the toolbar for the markup tools.
Thanks,but i cannot see the markup options, after I capture the screenshot.
Make sure you have it set to go to the floating thumbnail and follow the other steps in the video as well.
My screenshots dont preview in the bottom right corner, they instantly save and don't allow me to markup.
Why do you have the drawing tools immediately, and I have to press a special button to make them appear?
A difference in versions of macOS. This video is from 2 years ago so would have been created using macOS 12.
@@macmost Oh, are apple in the habit of making things worse over time?
Thank you
Does anyone know what happens if you press the delete button in the top right, it doesn't go to recently deleted and i deleted an important screenshot and don't know what to do. Thanks for any help!
It throws away the screenshot without doing anything. It isn't saved, in other words.
@@macmost there’s no way of getting it back?? I really need that screenshot…
@@micahklein4015 No. You never saved it. By clicking the trash can icon you dismissed it without ever saving it in the first place.
@@macmost thanks for your help… gutted there’s no solution though
Thanks bunches
Sorry, I know this is old, but what to do if none of my screenshot shortcuts are working? I have them selected with a checkmark in the keyboard shortcut settings, but nothing happens and I can't figure out why. So frustrated that mine does not seem to do this simple, fundamental task!!!
Do other keyboard shortcuts work? Do you have anything installed that could be overriding those shortcuts? Try it in Safe Mode and see if it works then.
too good !!
Been trying to do this for months, but still does not work I click on the mark-up tools but I still can't draw on the snapshot. I jsut get 4 corner dots that do nothing. Anyone else figure that out?
Maybe you have the color set to white, or nothing? Try setting the line thickness to something thicker, and the color to black.
Super!
Nice tutorial, thanks. I still find that Windows native Snipping Tool , then pasting into MS Paint, is so much more intuitive, faster, easier, fewer steps, more feature rich... than how Mac handles this. I would think Trillion Dollar Apple would provider better built-in options for simple snipping and annotating, without having to memorized yet more keyboard combos and all of these... steps.
You could do that on Mac too if you don't like this method for some reason. You can use a keyboard shortcut to "snip" the whole screen or an area and it goes right to the clipboard. Then paste into any image editing app you want.
I meant to say the circle shape, when selected, comes down as an oval...
That is an oval shape. If you want it to be a perfect circle, drag a corner and hold the Shift key while dragging.
How do you erase a drawing on a screenshot?
Select the thing you drew and then press the Delete key.
Gary is the manual Apple never wrote.
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Why am I not getting thumbnails.
Would love to see an update with the latest Mac OS after this tool has been ruined in Mojave.
It hasn't changed too much since I made this video. What about it was "ruined" for you?
@@macmost when you click on the little screenshot that shows up in the bottom right corner of the screen to add annotations, you now have to click on the pencil icon and then click on the line weight icon to start drawing. Previously you just started drawing.
Then after drawing on a screenshot you cmd + c or right click copy and paste the image only to not have the annotations and just the original image.
I think I just figured it out. If you draw on an image, you need to then click on the top toolbar area, then click back to the image and copy paste it.
I don’t remember ever having to do any of the above actions before. It “just worked”.
Hi Gary, your videos are wonderful sources of knowledge. I like your developed app very much. Do you mind making a video about screen annotation on Mac and advice where to find a simple tool like in video th-cam.com/video/W-iJjmg4xUs/w-d-xo.html , pls navigate to time stamp 1:29 for the 3 simple buttons tool. Thank you so much my friend!
I don't know what you are talking about. The video you linked to is a news report of some kind and I don't see anything at that time that relates to screen annotation.
Thanks Gary, nobody explains better. Why not videos on Google's apps and WhatsApp. I use them a lot and maybe many more people also. 🏆
I don't use WhatsApp (can't be everywhere) and try to limit my use of Google. Specializing in Apple is what I do.
I know you know a lot but why is it so difficult to just draw an arrow on a screen shot on a Mac?
Not sure how to answer that question. It isn't hard. Just click the markup tools button, click the shape tools button and choose arrow. The arrow appears. Now position as you like.
@@macmost Thank you for replying. I know it is user error. I don't even see the markup tools or shape button tools. With mac's typical user friendly methodology Im just surprised that those feature do not automatically populate - seems like they would. But alas that is why I am not a tech person. Again thank you for your reply and the video.
There's no more System Preferences!!!!!!! I'm losing my mind trying to figure this out.
Do you mean that it changed to System Settings (in 2022). See th-cam.com/video/v7NhixT5jk4/w-d-xo.html
Mate, apart from the fact there's no 'Markup' in here (you seem to misunderstand what that is), this stuff is so basic I think anyone who buys a Mac is probably well capable of working this out within a couple of minutes.
This from someone who posted a video of a cat wearing a scarf
Love your tutorials! So simple yet comprehensive, thank you for your work!
I wanted to know if there is a way to use Preview to create a box around the text, with the text being in-between the box as opposed to inside it?
This is a bit complicated to explain, so here's a reference: drive.google.com/file/d/1N7NGK8qkz-TUKa_95Q3ULs_2Xxb8uKx2/view?usp=sharing
If yes, I'd love to know how! Thanks again!
I'm not sure which part of that example you are trying to create, but you can do it all in Preview if you really try. But it would be easier to use a graphics app or Pages or something. Using Preview for precise document creation it is probably the wrong tool for that.