I then take the cursor on the window of my choice and click on it. This turns the cursor to a small camera icon. Though not necessary, I keep the chosen window at the very top and then use the key combination – Command + Shift + 4 + spacebar. If you’re like me and are interested in only one window, there is an even better way to get the job done. Right-click to return to the normal mode, if you decide not to take a screenshot. These are the x and y co-ordinates of the screen. Also, when the cursor turns into crosshairs, you’ll notice a couple of numbers. When you release, a screenshot of the selected area will be taken and stored on the desktop (or the designated folder) as a png image file. Click and drag to select an area on the screen. To capture only a part of the screen on the Mac, use the key-combination Command + Shift + 4. However, there are smarter ways to get only a portion of the screen or a window of your choosing. If you want only a specific window or select an area, you can edit and crop the image. The above key combination – Command, Shift and 3 keys – captures the entire Mac screen. For step by step instructions, refer how to change the default location of screenshots on the Mac.

You can change this with a couple of commands executed through the terminal window. Double click to open it in Preview.įYI, on the Mac, the Desktop is default location to which the screenshots are saved. The screenshot image is quite large – about 1MB – on my MacBook Pro.

Hold Command + Shift + 3 to get a screenshot which is immediately saved on the desktop as a png image named “Screen Shot YYYY-MM-DD at HH.MM.SS am/pm” (On Mac OS X Yosemite and El Capitan). There are three key-combinations for taking a screenshot on the Mac: Key-combination Keyboard shortcuts for screen capture on the Mac

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