The Preview app of OS X includes a myriad of image editing functions, markup tools, and conversion functions that are largely overlooked and underused, so if you’re just learning to use the Preview app for simple photo modifications and editing, crop is a great place to start. 5 ways to open Snipping Tool in Windows 10: Way 1: Turn it on in Start Menu. Get into Start Menu, select All apps, choose Windows Accessories and tap Snipping Tool. Way 2: Open it by searching. Type snip in the search box on taskbar, and click Snipping Tool in the result. Way 3: Turn it on via Run. Default keyboard shortcuts. Photoshop User Guide Select an article: Applies to: Photoshop. MacOS functions such as screen brightness, volume, etc. For more information on the behaviour of function keys on your Mac, refer to these Apple documentations: macOS Sierra: Use keyboard function keys. Slice Select.
Is there something like the Windows Snipping Tool for OSX?
For those, who don't know about the tool, it's an easy to use software to take snapshot of any portion of screen, and is really useful in various situations.
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There is now a blog entry about Taking Screenshots in a Snap.
It's built into Mac OS.
- ⌘+⇧+3 captures the whole screen
- ⌘+⇧+4 captures a custom rectangle (click and drag over the screen region you want to capture)
- ⌘+⇧+4 then space captures a specific window (move the mouse cursor over the desired window, then click)
Press esc to cancel.
Screenshots are saved onto your Desktop and timestamped.
Holding control in addition to any of the sequences above causes the image to be copied instead of saved to the desktop.
By default the image format is png. However, you can change the format by typing in the Terminal:
Where image_format is one of jpg, tiff, pdf, png, bmp or pict (among others). If you omit the second line, you will need to log out and in again for the change to take effect.
The settings for the shortcuts in the system preferences are located at:
System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Screen Shots
The MacOS X application that enables screenshots is called Grab. It is located at /Applications/Utilities/Grab.app
If you don't want to remember the shortcut keys, you can also use the built-in Preview app.
Just launch Preview, then from the menu, select File, Take Screen Shot, then choose
- From Selection - you will get a crosshair to drag
- From Window - you will get to choose which window to grab
- From Entire Screen - it will give a countdown first, so that you can get back to whatever app you want to take a picture of
It will then display the screenshot in Preview, and you can save, copy, paste, crop, etc. from there.
Macworld magazine's senior editor Dan Frakes just posted a very good short video tutorial (with show transcript) about the screenshot features of Mac OS X. This includes how to use the Grab app from the Utilities folder. The video is at: http://www.macworld.com/article/164123/2011/12/mac_os_x_screenshot_secrets.html.
His show description:'Mac OS X makes it easy to take screenshots—images of your screen or objects on it. But even veteran Mac users are often unaware of the many options available for getting the perfect screenshot. Here's a quick look at these underused options.'
If you also need editing capabilities (e.g. like Windows Paint or however it's called these days), Skitch is a good add-on (and it's free).
nohillside♦nohillsideEasycrop, or start with the insanely great (and free) SnapNDrag, from Yellow Mug — http://www.yellowmug.com/
You may like Snip, I used it for a while and I found it fantastic. You can download it from Mac App Store for free
Hotkey For Mac Powerpoint Crop Tool
Of course, the most convenient way to snapshot on Mac is by pressing keyboard shortcuts, however, this traditional method lacks additional features like making annotations, uploading images online for sharing, etc. For this purposes, you can make use of professional Mac screenshot tools that features the same function as Snipping Tool.
Grab - A built-in screenshot tool on Mac that enables you to capture anything you see on screen.
Skitch - Easy tool that allows for capturing, annotating and sharing screenshots / images.
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Jing - An effective screen capturing program that works for recording screen and taking screenshot.
grg♦Keyboard Maestro can drive Preview to behave exactly like snipping tool
F13 (in the same place as PrintScreen on Windows)
Open Preview.app
Select menu File/Take Screen Shot/From Selection
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In Microsoft PowerPoint, if you run your mouse over the edge of an object the cursor changes to Move. Click the edge of the object and you can move it around the slide with any of the following:
← or → (called arrow below)
Shift + arrow
Ctrl + arrow
The Ctrl+arrow keyboard shortcut is particularly useful because you can quickly move items around pixel-by-pixel to their most attractive location.
However, try as I might I cannot find a shortcut for resize. Some editors, such as Visual Studio, have Ctrl+arrow and Shift+arrow to accomplish these separate tasks. Is there anything like this in PowerPoint?
Using PowerPoint 2000 if relevant.
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- Ctrl + Shift + ↑↓ change the height of the shape.
- Ctrl + Shift + ←→ change the width of the shape.
If the shape's aspect ratio is locked, changing height will change width proportionally and vice versa.
This is in PowerPoint 2010. I haven't used 2000 in a long time, but I'm fairly sure the key combos should be the same.
UPDATE: I've checked this in PowerPoint 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 and found it doesn't work in any of them. Apparently this feature was introduced in 2010.
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