Insert screenshots in Gmail using the Safari browser

Question

I often have to take a screenshot on the screen (since I use OSX, I use the combination Command + Control + Shift + 4, which puts the screenshot on the clipboard). This works well and allows you to embed other programs in MS Word.

At some point, I had a problem with writing MS One Note (still on OSX) (I couldn’t insert anything when I did Command + V), which I was able to solve by researching online by changing the default image type for screenshots (I think it was from JPG to PNG using the command in the OSX terminal).

While this worked for MS One Note, it never helped embed Gmail into Safari (note that I have no problem with this in Google Chrome).

Can someone help with how to paste images from the clipboard into Gmail when using the Safari browser? (note that I am using the latest versions of OSX and Safari).

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have never tried using a combination of Command + Control + Shift + 4, but this is what I usually use and it works great for me.

Task 1;
to copy the screen capture to the clipboard so you can use Command + V to paste any program of your choice.

• Open terminal
• Enter this "screencapture -c" into the terminal without quotes, for example: screencapture -c
• open any program of your choice and press Ctrl + V to paste.

Task 2;
To take a screenshot of your computer and save the file directly to png or jpg, and then paste or attach it to any program you choose.

• Open terminal
• enter this "screencapture./Location/filename.ext" into the terminal without quotes, for example: screencapture./Desktop/myCapture.jpg This will save the capture file to your desktop using the jpg format.

for more information about the command, enter "screencapture -h" in your terminal without quotes.