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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:17:09 -0700
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On 10/16/15   PDT 2:03 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
> 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).
>

My screenshots, almost always Cmd-Shift-4, gets saved into DropBox, 
which provides a quick way to link to a photo. precisely 11:16:13 PM PST 
on Friday, October 16, 2015.

<https://www.dropbox.com/s/z87329gpw6lp6yu/Screenshot%202015-10-16%2023.16.21.png?dl=0>