The Macintosh operating system has always made it easy to capture a screen shot. A screen shot is an image of your computer desktop or an active window. Here's a summary of all the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture your screen in Mac OS X.
A. Entire screen:
- To capture the entire screen, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop with the filename starting with “Picture” followed by a number, example Picture 1, Picture 2, and so on.
- To copy the entire screen, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program like PowerPoint, Word, Photoshop, etc.
Command For Screenshot Mac
The same ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+3 shortcut for Mac OS is used in iOS to take a screenshot, with ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+4 bringing the screenshot directly in iOS' editing window in iOS 11 and later. Third-party Bluetooth keyboards often have a key or function key command devoted to taking a screenshot. Sep 25, 2019 Press Command+Shift+4, which changes the cursor to a crosshair. Click and drag the crosshair over the whole area you want to include in the screenshot. As you do this, a box forms to show what your screenshot will include. You can release the keys when you see the crosshair appear.
B. Portion of the screen:
- To capture a portion of the screen, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop following the same naming convention as explained on the first tip above.
- To copy a portion of the screen to the clipboard, press Command-Control-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, you can paste the screen shot to another application.
C. Specific application window:
- To capture a specific application window, press and hold Command-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
- To copy a specific application window, press and hold Command-Control-Shift-4 then tap on the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, which you can move around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and you can paste the screen shot into another application.
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Hello, quick tip (rather than a question) for those who need to take screenshots and paste directly clipboard - took me a while to figure this out (though is mentioned on Mac OS Support Site at bottom)
Q: How to take a Mac screenshot and paste directly to word from clipboard without savings as a PNG file on the desktop?
A: you need to use CONTROL button as well as other buttons to save straight to clipboard
Apple Support - Take a screenshot on your Mac
Taking Screen Shots
Capture a Screen shot entire screen
Take Screen shot as picture (PNG) file on Desktop:
PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-3.
The screenshot is added to your desktop (as PNG file)
Copt Screen to Clipboard (for pasting into other apps) – Use CONTROL
PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-CONTROL-3
To capture a window to the Clipboard (instead of a PNG desktop file):
Capture a specific window or art of your screen (Select the screen area)
PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift- -4
Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, and then click mouse.
Mac Screenshot Key Command
PRESS: Command (⌘)-Shift-CONTROL-4
Move the camera pointer over the window to highlight it, hold down CONTROL and then click mouse.
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
Mac Command For Screenshot
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