How to take a snapshot of your computer screen on a mac

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.

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Entire screen: To c apture the entire screen, press Command-Shift For example, you can change the save location, open the screenshot in an app, or delete the screenshot without saving it. Change the settings Click Options in the onscreen controls to change these settings: Save to: Choose where your screenshots are automatically saved, such as Desktop, Documents, or Clipboard.

Choose when to take the screenshot: Show Floating Thumbnail: Choose whether to show the thumbnail. Remember Last Selection: Choose whether to default to the selections you made the last time you used this tool. Show Mouse Pointer: Choose whether to show the mouse pointer in your screenshot.

Or use other screenshot shortcuts You don't need macOS Mojave to use these shortcuts, though they work in Mojave as well. Capture the entire screen Press Shift-Command-3, then find the screenshot as a. Capture a window Press Shift-Command Press the Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera. Find the screenshot as a.

Capture a selected portion of the screen Press Shift-Command Drag to select the area of the screen to capture. If you just need a shot for immediate copy-and-paste purposes—not something you want to save to your desktop—add the Control button into the mix. This will copy the screenshot to your clipboard instead of saving it to your desktop.

You can also take screenshots through the Preview Application.

Open Preview, and from the File dropdown menu, hover over Take Screenshot. From there choose to capture a screenshot of a Selection, Window, or Entire Screen. Sometimes you want to capture an entire webpage to save an article or story. Download the extension for free from the Chrome web store.

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