# image format to create, default is png (other options include pdf, jpg, tiff and other formats) # a variable of unix timestamp for screenshot file name

SS_PATH='/Users/rutherfordthefake/Desktop' # if you want to save them to your desktop, SS_PATH should be '/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop' Here's the shell script: # the path where screenshots to save Google turned up good info and I eventually settled on using Automator to allow a keyboard shortcut to trigger a shell script, the crux of which is a great little utility that ships with OS X called sips combined with screencapture and a handful of variables.

So the search began for info on how to either reconfigure OS X's screen capture functionality or define my own custom something-or-other to make small screen shots. Not to mention that making every image 144 DPI when 72 DPI will do takes significantly more disk space and bandwidth.

But viewed on a lower DPI screen, which is where many screen shots end up because I'm making them as accompaniment to something, they look comically large. 'Too big' probably isn't the best description. Menu How to take 1x screen shots on a retina mac 06 September 2016 on OS X, screen shot, retina, automatorĪ few years ago, when I got my first retina screen equipped mac, I quickly noticed that the screen shots it produced are too big.

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