The usual screenshot utilities, both built-in and third-party, never seemed to do what I wanted. Fortunately, Apple has provided three command-line utilities, screencapture, sips, and pbcopy, which can be combined in scripts to do exactly what I want.
An example script--which takes a screenshot (window, selection rectangle, or entire screen), resizes it to a given size or scale, saves it with a given filename, uploads it via FTP to a specified site, and puts the new file's URL on the clipboard--is described on this page.
[kirkmc adds: We've covered these command line utilities in various tips here in the past: screencapture, sips, and pbcopy, if you're interested in seeing what else you might do with them.]
An example script--which takes a screenshot (window, selection rectangle, or entire screen), resizes it to a given size or scale, saves it with a given filename, uploads it via FTP to a specified site, and puts the new file's URL on the clipboard--is described on this page.
[kirkmc adds: We've covered these command line utilities in various tips here in the past: screencapture, sips, and pbcopy, if you're interested in seeing what else you might do with them.]
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