macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by tokamak-teapot on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:09AM (#31775008)

Seeing as you and I both know the shortcut, how is it inaccessible or hidden? Just because it’s not there cluttering up the visual interface doesn’t mean it’s hidden. For anyone who thinks they might want it, they can find it. For anyone else, they’ll never see it. Seems about right to me.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by happymellon on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:20AM (#31775092)

Be sure how would I even know this is a thing to Google unless I see tip lists like this?

If there was a MacOS shortcut list, grouped by category so that when I want to do something I can search if it is possible without installing a utility, that would be awesome.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by wil421 on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:36AM (#31776289)

Have you tried to google it? It’s the first result.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Screenshot shortcuts and functions are here.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/take-a-screenshot-o...

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by happymellon on Friday June 17, 2022 @09:48AM (#31778091)

So that first page doesn't actually have the shortcut, it has a link to another page that contains the shortcut.

Secondly, it doesn't have the details on capturing without a shadow in an easy to read format.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by wil421 on Friday June 17, 2022 @10:08AM (#31778402)

Apple has only recently created the fancy screenshot utility. It used to only be 3-5 shortcuts for screenshots since I switched to Macs about 15 years ago.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by ASalazarMX on Friday June 17, 2022 @11:59AM (#31780155)

Sweet irony:

"Apple's UI is not discoverable or even obvious."

"Just use Apple's biggest competitor to find them!"

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by hackernewds on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:13AM (#31775038)

I do not know this shortcut. Further, I do not what shortcuts I do not know about.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by Hammershaft on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:57PM (#31781891)

Probably the most succinct unintentional definition of poor discoverability in a UI I have seen.

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Re:macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers by tokamak-teapot on Friday June 17, 2022 @01:36PM (#31781571)

If you were keen on the idea of finding some shortcuts, you would buy a book or search for docs or something though, right?

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