This week, screenshots have come up a lot in the office for some reason. I take screenshots all the time, and find it to be a great way to grab a piece of the ever-changing Internet, either for posterity or just for a laugh.
The easiest way to take a screenshot on your Mac is through keyboard shortcuts:
- Shift-Command-3 captures the entire screen
- Shift-Control-Command-3 captures the screen to the Clipboard
- Shift-Command-4 selects any part of the screen that you drag to capture (my most-used)
- Shift-Control-Command-4 captures a selection to the Clipboard
- Shift-Command-4 + space + clicking a window takes a screenshot of a window
You can also use Grab, the app included in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. To delve even deeper, click here to learn how to change the default file location of your screenshot in OS X.
Happy capturing!