![]() ![]() ![]() If anyone is considering getting one of their products, I strongly urge you to give them nothing except your loogies and a raised middle finger. Cross that: OSX and APPLE and their authoritarian BS are insanely aggravating. ![]() Simply rename this file to something useful like “my-album-art.png” and you are done. When you release the pointer this image will be on the desktop as a PNG file with a name like “Screen shot at 5.16.53 AM”. Use this to hilight just the portion of the picture clipping in the preview that you wish to copy. This will bring up a small crossed lines (not sure how to explain it, think crosshairs for targeting something) pointer. If not familiar with this process: with the Picture Clipping image up, choose the key at the same time as the key and then press the key. Then use the selective screenshot tool to grab just the image. Right click on the Picture Clipping, in the Finder, choose “Quick Look ” to view the full sized image in the Finder Quick Look previewer app. However, here is something you can do to hold you over till something is discovered. I have tried to figure out a solution and did some searching but without some purchased software, so far, it seems this is not possible. Ok, so it seems Apple did not like the feature of being able to coy a Picture Clipping so easily, using their own software. Pretty simple, but not something I would have thought of right away. Then using the “File” “Save as” menu options, save as any image type you like. Next, launch the “Preview” application and from the “File” menu choose “New from clipboard”. Next from the Finder’s “Edit” menu choose “Copy”. To do the conversion in this way, first double click the pictclipping image to open it in the finder. Converting these to something usable is not so intuitive so I am posting it here as to be easily located for myself if for nobody else (though I imagine others are looking for this from time to time).Īnyway, the easiest way to do this seems to be to use the clipboard and the “Preview” application. So a little annoying feature of some Apple/Mac apps is the creation of a image in the format “pictclipping”. It seems that Apple found this feature and killed it. UPDATE 2010 July 4: This process no longer works with 10.6 (.3 for me) as reported by readers. It appears however that the latest version of iTunes, at least, no longer creates these when copying album art out of the app. I cannot test this as I do not have this setup. ![]() UPDATE 2011 March 8: A commenter reports dragging the pictcliped image into PowerPoint allows you save the image from there, possibly in other formats. ![]()
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