10 Screenshot Markup Tips and Tricks

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00:00 Intro
00:38 Screenshot Basics
02:07 Markup Tool Basics
03:02 1. Draw Perfect Shapes
04:10 2. Use Text Bubbles To Annotate
04:55 3. Highlight Rectangle
05:27 4. Cover Items With a Rectangle
05:51 5. Magnify With a Loupe
06:14 6. Use Emoji and Special Characters
07:41 7. Add a Shadow To Help Text Stand Out
08:02 8. Markup Faster By Duplicating Objects
08:40 9. Custom Save Location, Name and Format
09:49 10. Another Screenshot To Preview Option
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[@briantdaniel9280]

Option and drag to duplicate. Fantastic!!! Another tip for when you take a screenshot while it’s still in the floating thumbnail you can quickly drag it into any app you are working in such as Mail, notes, etc. without having it save somewhere.

[@UnionMac]

Thanks, Gary, for yet another very worthwhile tutorial.

[@kennethmackellar2032]

Great video- very helpful and much appreciated. Thank you.😍

[@Anglaide]

Gary's gold, as usual!

[@dickwestheimer]

Additional tip: You can set it up so when you take a screenshot it can pop up on your iPad (if you have one) allowing you to mark-up using your Apple pencil.

[@PaulBeiser]

WOW - So many things I learned here - so useful. It's cool being able to add an emoji to text, and I was unaware of some of the shape tools. THANK!

[@jeffersk]

Thank You Gary. You are a Life-Saving Superstar🙏👏🏆I really appreciate your explanation delivery💃🕺

[@MrWinger1951]

Excellent! I use screen shot frequently and I didn't know these markup tools even existed for screenshot.

[@marklaurendet1861]

Very informative, bookmarked for later use

[@JoseLopez-vx7hw]

Nice video. I wanted to thank you for answering a video a seen a few days back and erased my history, so I can't say which one, but once again thank you and your answer help. have a nice day.

[@javtimestwo]

Once again you have found more features that users can apply on a daily basis. This channel is just like being in school and watching the master professor teach and teach at a very high level 👏🏽 Keep up the great work!

[@allark9650]

Thanks for all the info ☺️

[@peterfreeland7643]

I use this all the time adding source information on a document for my genealogy, ie: film number and page from FamilySearch or Ancestry info.

[@nares2005]

Excellent video. One of the best KZbinr for Mac tutorials. 👏👏👏

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! It’s a saver! Thank you, Gary!👏❤️

[@Frisson391]

Such an awesome job. I mean come on! LIKE I PROBABLY DO average of 50-100!screenshots a day abd had no idea about more adxx bc anced features and struggling with . Get it done but wonky.This will save a lot of time!

[@theenglishfactory]

Thank you!

[@AnilAtluriWord]

Thank you for the tips, Gary.

[@sddoumbia]

Thank you

[@frankvet1]

Amazing and at least for me, incredibly useful. Thank you

[@DerrickW30]

Very helpful. Pointed out some features I didn't know about yet. Thanks

[@weinbergfahrer4048]

Always useful, thanks a lot, Gary!

[@terryclair2914]

Awesome Gary, thank you!

[@Assassin1959]

Awesome!!!

[@meeluanistyn1644]

Would be good to have a blur / obfuscate tool in markup too.

[@haraldmuethel7546]

In preview/screenshot copy/paste a selection -> drag to reposition it (= level 2). Repeat with other selections (= level 3, 4, ...). Cut and paste it to the up most level part by part if needed to rearrange the stack. Choose "Color correction" > "sharpness" to blur all (level 1). Sorry for my quick-english, Servus.

[@ahmed_mahrouky]

thanks alot

[@Lsquared551]

Awesome, as usual!

[@jackoneil3933]

Pretty Cool, Been trying to do this for months, I only wish my macbook would actually draw something on the screen other than a nothing

[@macmost]

Maybe you have the color set to white, or nothing? Try setting the line thickness to something thicker, and the color to black.

[@jackoneil3933]

@@macmost Thanks for the reply! I have been checking line and color settings for months. I just found a support doc on the Apple site that suggested an NVRAM reset which I and it worked for a while. but as soon as I use a few apps and about 6gb of memory the markup circle on the right disappears. But if I open the screen grab file it's there. I thought it might be a low memory issue but I had the same issue on my MacPro running Monterey and 64gb of memory. I found a lot of other posts with the same issue and Apple's tech doc says that if you don't frequently restart your Mac things like that can happen, so I'll consider it a "Design Feature" (or flaw)

[@macmost]

@@jackoneil3933 I've never seen things like you describe. I've never seen the markup button disappear like that. It shouldn't have anything to do with memory use or NVRAM, restarting your Mac or anything like that. Sorry, I'm not sure what is wrong, but it is not a design feature/flaw.

[@jackoneil3933]

​@@macmost Thanks for the time Gary. It's a feature that would be handy in my work, and if I have to use it I can access it by opening the screen grab file, and then clicking the Markup Tool icon, and if that doesn't appear, I can reboot or do it on my PC as I usually am multi-tasking on both. I only have 8gb of memory on my Macbook and things can go wonky if I haven't rebooted for several hours and have an email client, a dozen browser tabs open and it hits the 8gb memory limit. I've experienced this on other Macs including my MacPro with 64GB and a redundant MacOS install on a separate boot partition. As multimedia creator Mac Memory and resource stack limitations it's one if the reasons I split my heavy app workload back to PCs, and use the Macbook for browsing. Anyway, the following describes my issue but with any markup tool, not just the highlighter Apple Discussions - 'No way to use "highlight selection" when annotating a screenshot? - 250895032 'clicking this button has no effect, and I can't find any way to actually create the selection to highlight. What am I missing?' I read so many Apple threads and support docs on the matter, I thought the following an Apple doc. - Screenshot on Mac Not Working? 5 Ways to Fix It - LifeWire ' The screenshot feature built into macOS requires no additional software; it should just work. If it stops working, there are a few places to look for answers-starting with the keyboard. If this accessory is functioning properly, look elsewhere. - Possible Causes for Mac Screenshot Issues: When you can't take a screenshot on a Mac, you're missing a valuable tool for troubleshooting and communicating ideas through email and text messages. Since it's rare that screenshots don't work on a Mac, it may be easy to discover why your Mac isn't performing as expected. - How to Fix it When You Can't Take a Mac Screenshot If everything else works correctly on the Mac, the keyboard is working correctly and isn't the problem. There are several other things you can do to pinpoint the reason why your Mac's screenshot function won't work. Turn off the Mac and turn it back on. Running a Mac for long periods without shutting it down can cause it to perform inefficiently or prevent certain apps from working properly. If the screenshot feature on your Mac isn't working, shut down the Mac and turn it on again. Then take a screenshot according to your preferred method, whether that's keyboard shortcuts or the Screenshot app. To check this, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts. There you can see whether keyboard shortcuts have been turned off or reassigned to other actions. Reset the NVRAM. Like a simple restart, resetting the non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) can sometimes resolve issues with core Mac apps and functionality. This memory is responsible for controlling many of the internal settings of the computer. Confirm the location for saving screenshots in the Screenshot app. The default is to save screenshots to the Desktop. If you changed that setting, your screenshots may be hiding somewhere you haven't looked. Check the location on the Screenshot app's floating menu bar.

[@jackoneil3933]

@@macmost Thanks for the time Gary. It's a feature that would be handy in my work, and if I have to use it I can access it by opening the screen grab file, and then clicking the Markup Tool icon, and if that doesn't appear, I can reboot or do it on my PC as I usually am multi-tasking on both. I only have 8gb of memory on my Macbook and things can go wonky if I haven't rebooted for several hours and have an email client, a dozen browser tabs open and it hits the 8gb memory limit. I've experienced this on other Macs including my MacPro with 64GB and a redundant MacOS install on a separate boot partition. As multimedia creator Mac Memory and resource stack limitations it's one if the reasons I split my heavy app workload back to PCs, and use the Macbook for browsing. Anyway, the following describes my issue but with any markup tool, not just the highlighter Apple Discussions - 'No way to use "highlight selection" when annotating a screenshot? 'clicking this button has no effect, and I can't find any way to actually create the selection to highlight. What am I missing?' I read so many Apple threads and support docs on the matter, I thought the following an Apple doc. - Screenshot on Mac Not Working? 5 Ways to Fix It - LifeWire ' The screenshot feature built into macOS requires no additional software; it should just work. If it stops working, there are a few places to look for answers-starting with the keyboard. If this accessory is functioning properly, look elsewhere. - Possible Causes for Mac Screenshot Issues: When you can't take a screenshot on a Mac, you're missing a valuable tool for troubleshooting and communicating ideas through email and text messages. Since it's rare that screenshots don't work on a Mac, it may be easy to discover why your Mac isn't performing as expected. - How to Fix it When You Can't Take a Mac Screenshot If everything else works correctly on the Mac, the keyboard is working correctly and isn't the problem. There are several other things you can do to pinpoint the reason why your Mac's screenshot function won't work. Turn off the Mac and turn it back on. Running a Mac for long periods without shutting it down can cause it to perform inefficiently or prevent certain apps from working properly. If the screenshot feature on your Mac isn't working, shut down the Mac and turn it on again. Then take a screenshot according to your preferred method, whether that's keyboard shortcuts or the Screenshot app. To check this, go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts. There you can see whether keyboard shortcuts have been turned off or reassigned to other actions. Reset the NVRAM. Like a simple restart, resetting the non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) can sometimes resolve issues with core Mac apps and functionality. This memory is responsible for controlling many of the internal settings of the computer. Confirm the location for saving screenshots in the Screenshot app. The default is to save screenshots to the Desktop. If you changed that setting, your screenshots may be hiding somewhere you haven't looked. Check the location on the Screenshot app's floating menu bar.

[@dansklrvids7303]

What a useful video!

[@lawrenceatkinson]

As always... there are always some takeaways to get from your videos.

[@axelBr1]

I didn't know about the option drag to make a copy of an added item. An additional thing, when you have the thumbnail if you control click on it, a pop-up menu of what to do with it will appear.

[@nioxic77]

This was excellent. i did spot a blog post a year or two ago about some more advanced features using preview... maybe that could be an idea for another video. i dont remember much of the blog i scrolled through it pretty quickly and.. forgot what the url was :s

[@faraway7696]

Thank you. How do I mark a sentence/word of the screeshot in color (imitating a marker)?

[@macmost]

Draw a rectangle around it. Make it the color you want with an opacity of 50% or whatever.

[@aram5642]

Is there a way to map the Markup icon to a keystroke? I think I saw this markup available as a workflow somwhere, would that mean that it is mappable to a keyboard shortcut?

[@macmost]

In Preview you can use Command+Shift+A. But in the floating thumbnail of the screenshot tool I don't know of any way. So set the "Save To" in the screenshot tool to Preview and it may get you the workflow you want.

[@aram5642]

@@macmost oh, thanks, that's a good one. Although from the design perspective they messed it. Two similar views (Preview vs clicking a thumbnail) and one has cmd shift A working, the other does not.

[@davidpurple3698]

Thanks / can you make the mark-up tool be permanent on so you don't have to press it every time you take a screenshot and wants to edit ?

[@macmost]

No, you have to click to engage it.

[@davidpurple3698]

@@macmost Thanks - too bad though

[@adityatiwari149]

hi sir, really wanted to ask you one question that i have recently bought a new macbook air m1 and i previously had a same one which i was using for 2 years now its battery health is 86 percent now i want to store this macbook air m1 which i was using previosuly for 2 years for 7 to 8 months how can i store this so that its battery does not get affected please reply, i really want a suggestion from you

[@macmost]

The most important thing is to store it in a cool, dry place where the temperature won't change much. Apple recommends getting the battery power near 50% and then shutting it down.

[@adityatiwari149]

thank you sir@@macmost

[@RyderCragie]

The Show Colours option to open the colour picker doesn't work for me when clicking the screenshot from the bottom right thumbnail. Is this just me? It happens on both of my Macs.

[@macmost]

It seems a little finicky, yes. I was able to get it to open, but only on the third try.

[@user-rj9xh6ss9u]

Hey. I´m trying to find out how to use highlight selection button. Hope you can help

[@macmost]

What question did you have about it? Do you mean the Markup tool that has a pencil with a line under it? That really doesn't do anything inside of screenshots as it is an image, not text, that you are marking up. That tool is more for when you are editing PDFs in other apps.

[@user-rj9xh6ss9u]

@@macmost I can´t figure out how to use it. In windows screenshot, i use the scale and highlight marker to highlight any part of the screenshot. Was hoping this would do something of the similar sort.

[@macmost]

@@user-rj9xh6ss9u Try drawing a box instead. Make it solid, but set the Opacity of the color to 25% or something. Number 3 in this video.

[@Papa-hs6yg]

Doesnt appear from vid that my favorite markup, highlight, is an option? Didn't see you ever click on that symbol at the top

[@macmost]

Screenshots are images. Highlighting is something you do with text documents.

[@garrysingh4484]

What about Scrolling Screenshot of an entire page ??? I know there is an option in debug menu but there's gotta be an easy way like Firefox !!!

[@macmost]

See kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ_ChaRui7mWgNE

[@MaiElizabeth]

What I hate and Apple never do anything about it is when I want to see the preview of the screenshot I took, the background app is not faded. It's very annoying to close the background before we can clearly see and do with the screenshot.

[@pgrodriguez88]

👌🏼

[@parkwaypony1914]

In the iOS for phone the magnify is no longer there how do we magnify stuff on our phone??

[@macmost]

It is built in. You can add it to Control Center or the Accessibility shortcut.

[@parkwaypony1914]

@@macmost I was referring to the magnifier in the photos section it used to be under Markup

[@macmost]

@@parkwaypony1914 I don't think the magnification "loupe" tool was ever in the iOS version of the markup tools, though I could be remembering wrong.

[@parkwaypony1914]

@@macmost it was in there prior to iOS 7 - if I had something a photo and want to magnify a particular section of to pic I could use that and then save the photo with that section magnified

[@macmost]

@@parkwaypony1914 Ah, so back in 2013? No wonder I don't remember it. Well, I suppose you could still do it, it will just take a third-party app.

[@zchovan]

Another great video, thanks so much! I learned a lot for a tool I use nearly daily. I know you probably don't take requests on videos in the comments, but I would LOVE an updated version of the following Music app related video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYKXi4OMgNmsfrcsi=00V-4zvlOKrwXa2O I'm not even sure if some of this stuff is possible anymore, so it'd be nice to see the most updated take on how to do this. Just in case you need some video ideas! Cheers!

[@macmost]

It is pretty much the same. Look in Music, Settings and turn off Apple Music.