Q. How do I take a screenshot on a Mac?
Answered By: Liam Warner Last Updated: Feb 01, 2019 Views: 311
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Answer
Screenshots are pictures of your computer screen. Taking a screenshot on your Mac computer requires keyboard shortcuts, (pressing certain keys at the same time), and there are a few different types of screenshots that can be taken through keyboard shortcuts.
- Command + Shift + 3, takes a screen shot of the entire display, i.e. the entire screen.
- Command + Shift + 4, takes a screenshot of an area that you can choose.
- Command + Shift + 4 + Spacebar, takes a screen shot of a selected window
- To take a screenshot of your entire screen, open up what you want to take a screenshot of, in this case it was the desktop background. Then press Command + Shift + 3.
- Then an icon of the image will appear on your desktop of the image you have just taken.
- To take a screenshot of a portion of the screen use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + 4.
- Once you have pressed the aforementioned keyboard shortcut, a small cross will appear in place of the mouse. Click and hold, then drag the area you wish to take a screenshot of. Once you release the mouse click it will take a screenshot. Below is an example.
- Once you have taken the screenshot the image will appear on your desktop, the same as previously.
- To take a screenshot of a selected window, open the selected window and hover the mouse over it and hold, Command + Shift + 4 + Spacebar, the window that will have its picture taken will darken. Release Command + Shift + 4 + Spacebar, and the image will appear on your desktop similar to before.
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