Timeline for How can I automatically copy screenshots to .jpg instead of .png on Windows?
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| Jul 7, 2023 at 8:47 | comment | added | harrymc | You may perhaps be able to automate uploading the JPEG file from disk into the clipboard, but that's another story. | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 8:46 | comment | added | harrymc | @Eternal482223: The clipboard format is hardwired to be what it is (and I don't believe that it's compressed although the format might support this). The compression is done when converting the memory image to the disk image in JPEG format, so it's done after, not before. There is really no way to avoid it, the screenshot is just a snapshot of the pixels from the screen buffer area that is kept by Windows, so it's not in a sophisticated image format like JPEG, and was never meant to be. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 21:02 | comment | added | Eternal482223 | I just tried the clipboard format, and only the bmp and png would work when trying to paste other places, and they both created the same size png file. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:47 | comment | added | LPChip | In greenshot, expert, check: I know what I do, there you can set the clipboard format to something else than PNG | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:47 | comment | added | Eternal482223 | Ok, I guess I was confused because I could copy a .jpg and post it elsewhere like in my file explorer as a .jpg, but that was probably just copying the file. So I guess what I am looking for is if there is a way to auto-compress before copying to the clipboard? | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:25 | comment | added | harrymc | The point is that an image in the clipboard cannot be in JPEG format, or it won't be an image. JPEG format in the clipboard, if it existed, will be just a sequence of bytes that wouldn't be understood as an image. All of the screenshot products create images, not byte sequences. Greenshot is a very versatile tool, but it only creates screenshot images, as do all other such tools. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:18 | comment | added | Eternal482223 | When I save directly, I have to open that folder and copy it from the folder, which takes at least 2x as long as just having it copied to the clipboard. Since apps like Greenshot will upload to places like Imgur and put the link in your clipboard, I would have assumed some app can put a compressed .jpg in your clipboard. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:07 | comment | added | harrymc | @Eternal482223: "Save directly" is almost immediate. | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:05 | comment | added | Yorik | @Eternal482223 isn't "Save directly" as harrymc suggested explicitly what you are asking for? | |
| Jul 6, 2023 at 20:02 | comment | added | Eternal482223 | Yes, I can do this already, but it wastes a lot of time. Is there any such software that can automatically save .jpg in clipboard? Just like when I use greenshot to create the .jpg, and then copy that image, that .jpg is now in the clipboard and I can paste it other places like the browser or the file manager I use. | |
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 19:25 | history | answered | harrymc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |