Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:03:31 -0500
Subject: Re: Screen capturing on Retina Macs...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.graphics,comp.sys.mac.hardware.video,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.systems
References: <KbedncUb4bWjOYPLnZ2dnUU7-YP46u6z@earthlink.com> <drydnYQME561eYLLnZ2dnUU7-fudnZ2d@giganews.com> <7u2dnfxKc87SeoLLnZ2dnUU7-Yf46u6z@earthlink.com>
From: Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:03:31 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <7u2dnfxKc87SeoLLnZ2dnUU7-Yf46u6z@earthlink.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <bp6dnc0JPp2--7zLnZ2dnUU7-SWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Lines: 22
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-gwteg9RJaHFcdIo20rdeexFa6KqRKt0nkLGfbjcxhuNi2//0VbaIaEkbuSw7gEeGS7i/Ur2AFMfwyLc!JD+wgupOn2z9Av1Dlg3A+qflxXBHqL2xqmkW9VWILWIRZHCx1lzp3PgnWiEQASpSLVh1n4l0+g==
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2494
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:32707 comp.sys.mac.graphics:380 comp.sys.mac.hardware.video:270 comp.sys.mac.system:83606

On 2015-10-15 13:50, Ant wrote:
>>> I noticed screen capturing on Retina Macs show very high resolutions and
>>> sizes. Is there a way not to have this big since I copy and paste them
>>> into documents, e-mails, etc. often?
>
>> Easily resized via Preview|Tools.
>
> Is there a way to resize in memory without saving as files? Like always
> set 50% of the screen captures I take? I usually screen capture and then
> paste directly into Word 2011 documents.

Not that I know of, but it would be nifty if there was an option for 
Screen Capture to open the image in Preview before writing the file. 
That would satisfy your need above.  (But being good Unix programmers, 
Apple engineers would probably write the temp copy to disk before 
invoking Preview - so would come to the same thing...)

As to managing screenshots written to disk, I typically write them to 
the download folder and then use them (and edit them from there).  I 
cleanup the download folder regularly so that's a good place to keep 
them.  (The default is the desktop but that's easily changed).