Screen Capture Mac

 Screen Capture Mac

There is a big difference between Mac and Windows when it comes to the keyboard. As you may know, on the keyboard of the system Mac OS, there is no such thing called Print Screen key like on that of Windows. Therefore, if you want to capture a screen shot on Mac, you will have to use a key combination. In this article, we will show you the way to screen capture Mac.

How to screen capture Mac?

The question needs to be clear here is how to screen capture Mac? Or how to take a partial screen shot right on this Mac OS system? Here is the answer.

1. If you want to capture the whole desktop, then press Command ⌘ + Shift + 3. The screen capture Mac will be automatically saved as a PNG file on the desktop. The file name will look like “Screen shot 2013-06-01 at 09.00.00 PM.png” or something like that. In case you want to copy the entire desktop, press Command ⌘ + Control + Shift + 3. Then the screen shot will be placed on the clipboard for you to paste into another program. 

2. The next one is to take a partial screen shot. If you want to capture just a portion of the desktop, then press Command ⌘ + Shift + 4. After that, a cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. After you release the mouse, the print screen Mac will be automatically saved as a PNG file on the desktop. A little notice that the file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.

3. Another thing that can interest you is how to capture a specific application window? In order to do so, you have to press Command ⌘ + Shift + 4, then press Spacebar. You will see that the cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. When you move the cursor over an application window, you will notice that the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over the window that you want to capture, what you need to do is click the mouse and the screen capture Mac will be automatically saved as a PNG file on the desktop. A little notice that the file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.

If you want to have your screen shots in other file formats than PNG, you can save these screen shots in JPEG, TIFF, PDF, and some other file formats. 

4. Print screen Mac: Using Preview.
 
Preview is an application in Mac OSX for displaying images and PDF files. If you have Preview installed in your mac, you just simply click on “File” on the menu bar, on the list there will be “Take Screen Shot” function, and it offers you 3 different print screen choices: “From Selection”, “From Window” and “From Entire Screen”.

If you want to add the print screen Mac to your clipboard instead of on the desktop, you should simply press the Control button together with any of the combinations above.

Mac is known as less prone to crashes and considered more reliable. Moreover, it is assumed to be much easier to use. Not only is Mac different from Windows in the keyboard but also in many other aspects such as operating system and price. We hope that these instructions on how to capture the screen shot Mac will be helpful for you in using the system Mac OS.