One Of The Things I Love About Mac - Screenshots

i love taking screen captures, or screenshots, on a Mac.

On my Windows computer to get a picture of something on a screen I had to go through several steps. First I’d have to do a screen capture, then I had to paste it into an app. Then I’d have to edit the screenshot to cut out everything but the image I wanted.

On a Mac I can get a screen capture or a screenshot with one step. If I press shift-command-3 the computer captures an image of my entire display and places it on my desktop.Here’s an example of my desktop with iTunes open.

itunes desktop screenshot

If I press shift-command-4 the computer gives me crosshairs, allowing me to select only the portion of the screen that I want a picture of, which in turn gets placed on the desktop. Here’s a picture of just a portion of the iTunes library contents, taken with one click.

itunes screenshot

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    tihh says:

    for screen capture I prefer Macvide ScrenCap (macvide.com)

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    Janessa says:

    It makes me love you a little bit that you’ve got Disturbed right above Dora the Explorer in the music list. :) What kind of Mac do you have? I’ve been thinking about changing from a PC to a Mac for a while…

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    pat.navymom says:

    Evil Woman, huh?

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