To do that, I simply press Command-Shift-4 and a crosshair shows up, letting me move to one corner of my region then click-drag the resultant grey selection box to the other corner, as I’ve done here: But all I really want is the article about Cards Against Humanity in the middle of the screen. To start, here’s a full screen capture using Command-Shift-3:Įasy enough. Let’s say you want to just capture a region or section of the screen instead, as, in fact, you did say!įor that task, you use Command-Shift-4 instead of 3. Not easy to hold all those down, but it works quite a treat.īoth of those are still dealing with the entire screen. You can do that with - ready for this? - Command-Shift-Control-3. But let’s say you just want to copy the screen image to the clipboard so you can paste it directly into a document or presentation, without a file in the mix. You already know about Command-Shift-3, which is the standard way to save a screenshot, but as you have mentioned it’s a full screen, entire display capture, and it’s saved to the hard drive with the clunky name “Screen Shot date at time“. The trick is to know your keystroke sequences!

Here at AskDaveTaylor we take thousands of screen captures each month, whether it’s on mobile devices, televisions, Linux systems, Macs or Window systems, and after years of experience, I think the Mac has one of the easiest methods of taking screen captures out of all of them.

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