The default photo file format for Apple Computer MACOSX system is PNG, if you want to change the default screenshot format to JPG, GIF or PDF, you can enter the following command at the terminal
Change the default format of the Apple screenshot to JPG
Defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
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Modify Apple screenshot default format for GIF
Defaults write com.apple.screencapture type gif
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Modify Apple screenshot default format is PNG
Defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
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Modify Apple screenshot default format to PDF
Defaults write Com.apple.screencapture type PDF
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Ps:.png format photos have many advantages (otherwise Apple does not return the default to. png photos, right), first it is lossless compression, second, PNG format photo display is very fast, just download 1/64 of the image information can display a low-resolution preview image.