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How do I combine several screenshots into one image on a Mac?
The quickest built-in way is the Shortcuts app: make a shortcut with the Combine Images action, which lays your screenshots side by side, stacked or in a grid, and saves one picture.
Keynote works too, if you want to place them by hand. Clacky’s Collage (macOS 14 or later) puts shots from its Shelf on one canvas with even gaps, rounded corners and a background.
With the Shortcuts app
Turn on Use as Quick Action in the shortcut’s details to run it from Finder: select the screenshots, Control-click, choose Quick Actions and your shortcut.
- Open Shortcuts and click + for a new shortcut.
- Add Select Photos, or Select File for screenshots in Finder.
- Add Combine Images and choose Horizontally, Vertically or In a Grid, with the spacing you want.
- Add Save File (or Copy to Clipboard).
- Run it, pick your screenshots, and you get one image.
With Keynote
- Make a slide with a plain background and drag your screenshots onto it.
- Line them up with the yellow guides, and resize them so they match.
- Choose File → Export To → Images to save the slide as a PNG or JPEG.
- This is the way to add labels, arrows or a title between the shots.
With Clacky’s Collage
Every Clacky shot lands on the Shelf beside the editor (the last 20, for 24 hours by default), and you can drop in any image too.
- Take your shots with ⌥⇧⌘4 (area) or ⌥⇧⌘5 (window).
- On the Shelf, select two or more and click Make Collage.
- Pick a layout: Side by side, Stacked, 2 × 2 grid, 1 big + 2 small, 3 in a row, Showcase or Freeform. Match heights or Match widths lines them up.
- Choose Nice (⌘B) for a background, even gaps, rounded corners and a shadow per shot, or Raw for the shots edge to edge, for docs and bug reports.
- Copy or save.
Where these facts come from
Checked on 5 November 2026.
- AppleInsider: How to combine images using Shortcuts on macOS (Combine Images: horizontal, vertical or grid)
- MacMost: Creating photo collages using Mac Shortcuts (spacing)
Questions
Can Preview combine two screenshots into one?
What about a before and after picture?
How do I capture a page taller than my screen instead?
Facts checked on 5 November 2026.
Related
- CollagePut shots from the Shelf on one canvas, pick a layout, and Nice adds a background, even gaps, rounded corners and shadows.
- ShelfEvery shot slides onto the Shelf beside the editor. Drop in any image, or drag one out to Finder or any app.
- Put a screenshot in a MacBook or iPhone framemacOS can’t add device frames. Use Apple’s free product bezels in a design app, or a screenshot tool with frames, like Clacky’s Showcase up to 8K.
- Add arrows and numbered steps to a screenshotPreview’s Markup has arrows, shapes and text, but no numbered steps. Clacky’s editor drops 1, 2, 3 in order with one tool, after an arrow with A.
- Scrolling CapturePick a window and Clacky scrolls it for you, stitching one tall image of the whole page.
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