Screen Grabs - no iPhoto Preview

Hi There!
I have just noticed a bug between the iPhone and iPhoto. Photos taken with the camera display a preview. Screen Grabs from the iPhone (holding the home key and clicking the sleep/wake button) have no preview in the import window however import fine?
Anyone else getting this?

I was just wondering about this as screen grabs used to show up in iPhoto. I thought maybe it was something from the new raw capture update that was installed a few days ago.

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When I grab a picture of an application screen (using cmd + shift + 4 and then hitting the space bar over the application), I get a screen grab that opens fine in Preview, but when I drag/import it to iPhoto, it adds an ugly thick black border around the whole picture. Why? Is there any way to stop this from happening?

Old Toad wrote:
Missed the Command....... I have used that command and don't get the border except when viewing the file as an thumbnail in the Finder.
Do you have a MMe account? If so upload the screenshot file to the Pictures folder and use the following code to add it to a post:
Click to View Photo
You'll get this: Click to View Photo. It's a screenshot of the screenshot and it's presentation in Safari.
So, I can see immediately from the photo in the link above that you have not used the key combi I am talking about - was that intentional?
Anyway, here's the link, and you can quite clearly see the drop shadow.
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I did a screen grab from imdb (Internet Movie DataBase) off the Internet. It's currently in .png format.
I want to highlight part of the text in the text in this picture as if I were using a yellow highlighter marker. I've tried everything I can think of but so far no dice.
It seems that the thing to do is to choose Tools > Mark Up, but Mark Up is grayed out.
I know this is possible because a guy I work with does it all the time. But it's too late to call him, and he's fairly irrascible anyway. And I know I did it once a while ago.
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I'd never used Grab before, so just did so. It's an awfully simple app, it seems - offers some capture controls the keyboard commands don't (such as timed and full window), but doesn't seem to be able to do anything other than capture an image. Its Preferences are bare-bones.
I had to open my test image in Preview to make any annotations. That was easy - save the image in Grab to the desktop and name it, then a double-click of the file opened it in Preview.
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Don't understand why the annotation tools aren't available to you in Preview.
Edit - -
Just rebooted into Snow Leopard to do some testing. No matter what I tried, new screenshot using keyboard or Grab, fiddling with settings, I could not get Preview to not allow selecting the Rectangle tool.
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Any idea what the problem could be? When I screen grab a fullscreen window by typing "Command > Shift > 4 > Space" the resulting screenshot has the right hand edge cut off. Seems to happen in all apps. It only happens when an app window is full screen or maximized (or a little smaller - about 20px on each edge). Using Grab or Preview to capture works but those apps don't capture the alpha-blended window shadow.
http://www.imgftw.net/img/387216687.png
http://www.imgftw.net/img/428201741.png
http://www.imgftw.net/img/199621762.png

I'm able to reproduce the issue as well with images at full, or near full, screen.
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I've followed the tutorial to create a interactive publication:
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I installed the Adobe Viewer on my iPad and signed in. I can see the "City Guide Monthly" publication as an icon in the viewer but when I then click on the Download button I get an error as shown in the screen grab below. Any ideas why? It all previews fine on my Mac.

The Viewer on iTunes has not been updated yet. This an Apple issue since they take forever to approve everything.
You'll need to wait a bit until they get around to it.
BTW, there's dedicated forum for DPS. Please post follow up messages there.
Bob

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I have 2 external Firewire hard drives. One is for backup. One is for my music and pictures.
Everytime I would start iPhoto I would get "rebuild thumbnail cache". Knowing this is not normal, I used the latest version of Backup, and backed up to an external hard drive.
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And I have rebuilt the iPhoto database several times to no avail.
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Robert
Sorry to hear of your problems.
Right now I would concentrate on getting the pics back, and figure out the iPhoto part later.
Select one of the pics in the Finder and try change the file suffix: if it's pic.jpg, then try pic.JPG or .jpeg and see if that helps.
Try open the pics with Graphic Converter, which seems to be less fussy about things. You can download it here: http://www.lemkesoft.com/
BackUp (if this is the Apple App we're talking about) creates a pkg file. Can you see the one you restored from? Right click on it, and choose 'Show Package Files. Inside you'll find a .dmg file. This contains the actual files. Mount the dmg and see if you can find the files inside it. Can you view them in Preview?
Regards
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How to post a screen-grab on here

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I have a question that requires me to place a screen grab on here to best describe my problem, how do you do this?

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I am currently editing some short little promo's that mix DVpal footage with .avi footage. The .avi footage are screen grabs of someone navigating a website, and are designed as cutaways to illustrate a ptc.
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Embedding screen grab into this forum

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I need to get a couple of screen grabs into a forum message... how do I that as I thought a simple copy and paste would work... but of course it didn't?
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There are instructions for inserting images in [this user tip|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121950].
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