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If you need to do any image manipulations/highlight on your screenshots, two of the best tools I found are:

1) Monosnap (freemium) - https://monosnap.com

2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com

Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.

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a FOSS alternative is https://flameshot.org/

Amazing tool. And the best FOSS app I ever used on Ubuntu.

I haven't used it, but I really like their website. Describes the tool succinctly and clearly with a few key features highlighted and nothing else.

Cleanshot might be the best value for money I’ve ever had from a paid software utility.

It’s truly excellent and feels like a natural extension of the built-in functionality.

Huge +1 to CleanShot (and PixelSnap). Definitely worth the money considering I use CleanShot daily. Quick annotations, simple video capture and re-encoding. The integration with PixelSnap is really nice as my screenshots have consistent padding. A small thing, but it takes me zero effort and is aesthetically pleasing.

Worth noting however that just switching to Preview and Cmd-N will open it up with your screen shot from the clipboard, and then cmd-shift-a gets you annotation tools. So this is a pretty streamlined workflow already.

I like Pixelmator for even more manipulations (Photoshop-like). $19.99 gives you _a lot_ of value.

https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

Really a great app. Fills in where basic Preview annotations leave off, and approaches Photoshop-level capability.

I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is:

Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file.

I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process.

Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?

Just took a quick look and couldn't find any way to do it. That would be a great feature actually.

I wonder what the cost benefit on that little popup window for preview is after the screenshot. Too often I find myself being annoyed because it went away before I was able to click on it and as a result I just take another screenshot to get the window to pop up again. Way less often do I find myself annoyed because it stuck around too long.

Doesn’t selecting Preview (instead of the folder, as suggested in the article) let you skip the saving-to-disk part?

If you click on it as soon as it's taken, it opens in an editor. The editor isn't Preview I don't think, but damned if I can tell what it is.

I felt $29 was a bit much considering greenshot and other free things on windows that do similar ... but I use it hundreds of times some days and it's overall great.

Love Cleanshot! It’s so fast and snappy. A rare treat.

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