Quick Tip: Cropping With Grab

There’s usually more than one way to complete a task, there’s the fast way, and the slow way. The slow way to crop a photo from the internet would be to save it to your Downloads folder, open it in preview, then crop it.

The fast way is to hit Shift+Command+4 and take a screenshot of only the section of the picture that you need.

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Written by Michael Zhao on May 29, 2008 at 10:35 pm - Quick Tip: Cropping With Grab has 4 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, Productivity Tips, keyboard shortcuts

4 Responses to “Quick Tip: Cropping With Grab”

dan

Now that tip is too freaking easy - made me feel almost stupid for not knowing it. I have been using the "Jing" program to do the exact same thing and it takes SO much longer to do what that tip does in a millisecond.

GREAT TIP ! .. I wish you could choose the file format though June 1st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Brad Jasper

Dan, You can do this with a quick terminal command: http://www.mactips.org/archives/2007/12/28/change-the-screenshot-format/ June 1st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Josh Mullenite

Sweet way to promote copyright infringement! June 11th, 2008 at 1:40 am
sahaini

Apple+shift+3 for all the screen.
Apple+ctrl+shift+4 your image is copied to clipboard.
Apple+shift+4 plus space bar you can shot a window. June 28th, 2008 at 5:27 am