#MAC OS X TAKE FULL SCREEN SNAPSHOT HOW TO#

Here are those modifiers: Space bar - move whole selection Shift - resize one side of your selection Option - resize rectangle around the center point Another option is to use the Grab application that comes with OS X in the Utilities folder. So saving the desktop to the clipboard is Control+Shift+3, saving an area is Control+Shift+4 and saving a window is Control+Shift+4 then space bar If you're using Leopard or later, you can modify the capture area you're highlighting with Command+Shift+4 or Control +Shift+4. If you want to save that image to the clipboard instead, use Control instead of Command. Hover your mouse over a window and click to save an image of that window. Command+Shift+4 then hit space bar (capture window) This highlights a window. This is by far my favorite of all of these tools. Click and drag to create a rectangle that you want to save. Command+Shift+4 (capture selected area) This creates crosshairs on the screen. If you use two screens it will save one image for each screen. Command+Shift+3 (capture whole screen) this captures an image of the whole screen and saves it to your desktop.

#MAC OS X TAKE FULL SCREEN SNAPSHOT HOW TO#

So how to do it? Use keyboard commands! When buttons are connected by a + sign that means that you push all of those buttons at the same time. This makes it a lot easier to share ideas with others. It's super useful to get an image of a website or an image or even just a part of an image. Capturing a screenshot on OS X is something that I use on an incredibly regular basis.

Mac os x take full screen snapshot