If you've switched to a Mac from Windows, you've probably noticed that the standard keyboard doesn't have a dedicated Print Screen button. But this does not mean that you have to download a separate program for screenshots - everything is already in the system, and the standard utility has quite wide capabilities.
Shooting a selected area
This type of screenshot creation has its own hotkeys that will allow you to make the selection as accurate as possible - in case you do not have the opportunity to edit the finished image. First click ⌘ + Shift + 4 - after that you can select the capture area. During this:
- Hold Altto make the changes symmetrical;
- Hold Shiftto move only one edge of the frame;
- Hold Spaceto move the selection around the screen.
This video demonstrates the capabilities of selective capture:
Let's improve our visual selection-fu.
The built-in OSX screenshotter has several awesome adjustments features, so just press alt, space or shift and see what happens - or just watch this short educational video! 😁
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How to take a screenshot
We'll also remind you how to take other types of screenshots. There are several combinations for this:
- ⌘ + Shift + 3 - standard screenshot of the entire screen;
- ⌘ + Shift + 4 - shooting of the selected area;
- ⌘ + Shift + Space + 4 - shooting of the selected window;
- ⌘ + Shift + 5 - viewing all methods of screen capture (including video recording);
- ⌘ + Shift + 6 - screenshot of the Touch Bar;
- ⌘ + Ctrl + Shift + 3 - a screenshot of the entire screen with saving to the clipboard;
- ⌘ + Ctrl + Shift + 4 - shooting the selected area with saving to the clipboard.
When you press ⌘ + Shift + 5 you will also be able to choose where to save screenshots, whether to display a preview and set a timer.
Advice: if you want to take beautiful screenshots of the application window with shadow, use the combination ⌘ + Shift + Space + 4 - just make sure the application is open in windowed mode and not full screen.
It turns out something like this:
You can turn off the shadow if desired. To do this, you just need to select the window to capture by holding the ⌥ key. The difference is obvious:
Learn more about screenshots on Mac - in full instructions Life hacker.
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