By default the screenshots you capture on your Mac are saved on the desktop in a .png format extension. If you wish to save them as .jpg instead before they are saved, you can do so by below steps,
- In Spotlight search open Screenshot,
- Now click on Options and select Preview, under Save to
- Now when you take a screenshot using the keyboard (Command + Shift + 3 or 4 e.t.c) the image will be previewed before it will be saved.
- Press ⌘ Command + S to open Save window, here you can choose format as JPEG
- You can also compress the size of the image by setting the least to best quality option.
- Also, you can name the screenshot as you want and choose where you save the jpg image.
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