Luckily, the built-in macOS editor lets you convert screenshots from the default PNG format to JPEG (or JPG), TIFF, HEIC, PDF, etc. You might also need to convert screenshots to Portable Document Format (PDF) to meet the file upload requirements of certain platforms or websites.
Images saved in this format have superior quality and larger file size over other common formats like JPG, BMP, etc.Ĭonverting screenshots to JPEG format can help save your Mac’s storage space.
macOS, by default, saves screenshots in Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. We assume you already know that there are different image formats.
This built-in editor also lets you convert screenshots to other file formats.