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I have a workstation with 5 monitors, but I need to save just one entire screen / display contents immediately to a file (a region is an option, but it would need to be a predefined region at the click of a key combo). The existing built-in screenshot functionality of the OS doesn't do this.
Is there an app that facilitates this on macOS?
The program I found that solves this issue at least in part is Monosnap. It has a function under Preferences -> Hotkeys called "Capture previous area", which, when used, takes the same snapshot of the first defined region as was captured via "Capture area":
All of these images are then saved to Monosnap under the Pictures folder if you have that option checked in the "Advanced" tab.
GreenShot is now available for MacOS; I use it on Windows, and it does just about everything I need. By default, you get the following choices:
"Capture full screen" by default captures the single monitor that the mouse pointer is on; there's an INI hack for it that will make it capture the entire multi-head extended desktop instead (or you can use the region capture instead).
"Capture window" captures the currently-active window, regardless of which screen it's on, or even if it goes across the junction between screens.
"Capture Region" lets you select an arbitrary rectangular region from your (possibly multi-headed) desktop.
"Capture Last Region" lets you capture the most recently defined region from a "Capture Region".
I use Layers for this - not only a ton of controls, but also captures Mac OS UI elements all as separate layers in a PSD, which is very helpful for documenting UI.
