Sharing screenshots with CloudApp is easy. To capture your screen go through the following steps. Once you are comfortable taking screenshots with native Mac OS X tools try and upload them with CloudApp.

How do I take a screenshot?

To capture the entire screen and save it as a file on your desktop:

How do I take a partial screenshot?

To capture a selection of the screen and save it as a file on your desktop:

Use your mouse to draw a rectangle in order to specify what to capture - or press the spacebar and then click on something (e.g. a window) to capture it.

How do I take a screenshot without saving it as a file?

How do I upload a screenshot after taking it?

By default CloudApp has Autoupload Screenshots enabled. After taking a screenshot following one of the steps above the image will be uploaded automatically and the link to the file is then copied to your clipboard.

If you have disabled this option you can upload the screenshot by pressing the CloudApp hotkey within 5 seconds after capturing your screen.

How do I change the file format of my screenshots?

If you are not an advanced Mac OS X user we recommend not to modify these settings.

1. Start Terminal.

2. Enter: defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg (for other formats replace jpg with file extension) and press Return.

3. Try capturing your screen following one of the steps above. The file format should now be jpg.

4. If it didn't work enter: killall SystemUIServer, press Return and try again.

How do I change the location where my screenshots are saved?

If you are not an advanced Mac OS X user we recommend not to modify these settings.

1. Start Terminal.

2. Enter: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /full/path/to/folder.

If you are not familiar with Unix paths, press space after location and then drag the desired folder into the Terminal window, remove the slash at the end and press Return.

We would like to thank Take A Screenshot for their help.