Best Ways To Capture / Take Screenshot In Mac OS X


If you are a Mac user and looking for ways to capture / take screenshot in Mac OS X, then this post will prove to be of great help. The best fact about Mac OS is that you need not have a screen capturing software installed on your system, you can simply use keyboard shortcuts for Mac an capture screenshots.

TAKE SCREENSHOT IN MAC USING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

To capture whole screen as screenshot:

Command + Shift + 3: Takes a screenshot of the entire screen, and saves the image to your desktop.

Command + Control + Shift + 3: Takes a screenshot of the entire screen, and saves it to your clipboard.

To capture selected portion as screenshot:

Command + Shift + 4, and click an area: Takes a screenshot of an area and saves the image to your desktop.

Command + Control + Shift + 4, and click an area: Takes a screenshot of an area and saves it to your clipboard.

To capture a window as screenshot:

Command + Shift + 4, then press space, and click a window: Takes a screenshot of a window and saves the image to your desktop.

Command + Control + Shift + 4, then press space, and click a window: Takes a screenshot of a window and saves it to your clipboard.

TAKE SCREENSHOT IN MAC USING GRAB

You can use a preloaded Mac tool called as Grab in order to take screenshot in your Mac. Once you are logged on your Mac, navigate it to Go — >Utilities –> Grab. This will launch the tool called as Grab and you can use it to capture screenshot whenever you want.

These were the two best ways to capture / take screenshot in Mac. Try using them.

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December 23, 2010 by: Prasanth Chandra

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