How To Save Screenshot On Mac As Jpg

You may already know how to take screen or a portion of the screen in Mac OS X. You can press ⌘,Shift,3 keys to capture the entire screen or ⌘,Shift,4 to capture a rectangular portion of the screen. By default the screenshots will be stored as .png files. But you can easily change the default settings anytime and can save the screenshots as .jpg, .pdf, .gif or .tiff file format. Here, first we have changed the default settings to save the screenshots as .pdf files later we have changed it to .jpg.

As per your requirements you may change the default format anytime:

.jpg/.png: Suitable for web uploads or for using in blog posts.
.gif: Because of the lowest size on disk, it’s suitable as resources of .css files (as it can reduce the loading time of a website).
.tiff: Suitable for Printing.
.pdf: Suitable when you are capturing Web pages, rich-documents, Capturing applications like Numbers, Pages.

Steps capture screenshot as PDF or JPEG in Mac OS X

To change the default screenshot format from PNG to JPG, simply type the following command into Terminal and press Enter: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg; killall SystemUIServer. You can now try capturing a screenshot on your Mac using the Command + Shift + 3 combo and should see the screenshot saved in the JPG format instead of. By default, MacOS saves all the screenshot on the desktop. But in the long run, this can clutter your desktop, so it’s better to create a new directory for all the screenshots. And here is how to do it. Create a new folder, where you want to save your screenshots. Open finder, go to Documents create a new folder, let’s called it.

Change Mac Screenshot To Jpg

1. Open Terminal: While you are in Finder press Shift,⌘,A to open Applications and then click on Terminal. You can also open Launchpad and search for Terminal.

2. Now in terminal run below commands to change the screen-capture format to .pdf.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf;
killall SystemUIServer;

Now take screenshot by pressing ⌘,Shift,3 or ⌘,Shift,4, you will find that the screenshot has been saved as a .pdf file.

run below commands to change the screen-capture format to JPEG.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg;
killall SystemUIServer;

Screenshot On Pc

The process is same for .gif, .tiff or to revert back to default .png. That’s it.